Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
...long hand with long, bony fingers, firm muscles and flat palm, long nails with well developed moons, and many deep, clear-cut palm lines belongs to tall, slender people, nervous and excitable, vivacious, popular, successful, in danger of becoming egotistical. They will tend toward disease of the thyroid, tuberculosis or nervous disorders. Among them are many tennis champions, polo players, dancers and engineers...
...Labor. The news came as a mighty shock to millions : What was John Lewis up to now? The move was the result of secret negotiations, mainly between Lewis and big Bill Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters' Union, who once called Lewis a big bastard and was forthwith knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green, whom Lewis originally made president of A.F. of L., and later denounced as a "faithless ingrate" (and many other things). Summoning reporters to his office, Bill Green took quiet revenge, smugly smiled...
...This Tuesday afternoon WLB turned the $2 rise down flat, but offered other concessions: 1) $50 vacation pay instead of $20; 2) an estimated saving of 15 cents a day by making the operators pay for tools; 3) an offer to okay a "reasonable" deal to be worked out by collective bargaining on portal-to-portal...
...native Jaemtland, vowed that he would be back to avenge that disgrace. Two days after his suspension was lifted he cracked the mile record, 48 hours later the twomile. Gunder Hägg's latest prediction: he will some day run a mile in four minutes flat, thinks California is the place where he might...