Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I, mustering-out pay was a flat $60. When an able-bodied World War II soldier is discharged, he gets the thanks of his country, and his uniform.* To two Congressional committees last week, this did not seem enough. They wrestled with bills calling for pay from $100-$500. Estimated cost of such legislation: $3 billion. (Most conservative estimate of the ultimate World War II pension bill: $45 billion...
...lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into...
Sergeant Bill, in Manhattan for a big weekend, is promptly ditched by his hot date (Audrey Christie), left high & dry in her friend Sally's flat (a living room, bedroom and kitchen that Scene Designer Stewart Chancy has expertly squeezed into a single set). Bill and Sally get acquainted: Bill is decent, down to earth, off love since it scorched him a few years back. Sally is sweet, self-dramatizing, off love since it scorched her a week ago Tuesday. Because it is raining and he is tired and has no hotel room, Bill spends Friday night...
Popcorn and Ping-Pong. Two years later, Greer Garson was one of the most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence...
Every dog on the post has become his friend and follows him like an aide-de-camp. Lou's barbers have been terrorized into a new record for a Marine haircut-six seconds flat. And each night there are two to three cases of cool beer on hand to be shared with a veteran M.P. sergeant who can almost keep up with Lou at cribbage...