Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce's "When the Lights Go On Again Committee" (TIME, Aug. 16), formed for the sole purpose of celebrating this moment in history, was caught flat-footed with no plans for a suitably gala ceremony...
Private Ronald Morris of London said that he saw Mariendorf after an R.A.F. night attack, and "it was a terrible mess." U.S. flyers whose route to the embarkation point lay through Augsburg, Berlin and Hamburg reported that Hamburg was "flat for miles and miles-a shambles." Eight British prisoners reported everything flattened on both sides of the railroad over a two-mile area in Frankfurt...
...Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Governor of Guy's Hospital, president of the Dramatists' Club, one of the three finest toxophilists (bow-shots) in England, a member of the Royal Company of Archers. For the duration he is living in a tiny London flat. His swank Mayfair house, he explains, is inhabited by "40 American lady warriors...
Scattered through the League's six other teams are some of football's biggest names: Mel Hein (of Washington State College), one of the greatest centers ever; Don Hutson, All-America end at Alabama and alltime great with the Packers; flat-footed Frankie Sinkwich, Georgia All-America, who has sparked the Detroit Lions to a sensational comeback...
...Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...