Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of this simple realism, the extravagant newspaper stories which attacked General Marshall's shift fell flat...
...trial balloons fell flat. Moscow said nothing; her terms were still the 1940 frontiers established by the Russo-Finnish War, plus a base at Hango. Berlin said nothing, and the estimated 80,000 German troops in Finland remained at their posts. London and Washington said nothing, meaning that Finland could still expect no intercession with Moscow...
Airman's Tragedy. One of the saddest of military accidents occurred two and a half years ago when two Naval ensigns, "flat-hatting" in a trainer, hit and beheaded a woman working in an Alabama field. Both youngsters were cashiered, sent to prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William...
...living room, near the pink-tiled fireplace, Sam has a flat-topped, eight-legged desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...
...convinced I should experience it. . . . It was about 2 p.m. when I saw the first parachutist coming down, followed by others who were resolved to break any resistance. My guards realized that and did not fire. . . . The liberation . . . will live in history-will in the future become legendary." The flat, weary voice climbed to the old balcony swagger as it recounted the rescue. Then it fell again...