Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Board ordered Lewis to resume wage negotiations with the operators under its jurisdiction. Lewis did not obey. Finally this week, 60 hours before his self-imposed strike deadline, he made a flat refusal...
...Gafsa, but was unable to push through the hills beyond. Reason: insufficient infantry. So about half the division was shifted to El Guettar for the new offensive. A dozen miles east of El Guettar the hills come close together in a narrow pass, and after that there is flat going to the sea. The plan was for the 1st Division to seize the hills to the north, for the 9th to take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through the pass and see what it could do. This would keep...
...capture of Djebel Tahent, Hill 609, which rises like a flat-topped fortress above the lower hills near by, that cracked the German positions south of Bizerte and started the withdrawal that became a collapse. The 34th Division took 609 in a bloody battle and held it against savage counterattacks...
Four Minutes Flat. Unlike Nurmi, Hägg has no fancy theories about his speed. A bashful, homespun farmer's son, reared in the wooded hills of northern Sweden, he attributes his flawless style to the springy forest paths, thickly padded with pine needles, where he first learned to run. He believes he is smooth and swift because he enjoys running more than anything else in the world except playing his accordion and doing the hambo, a native Swedish dance...
...cape itself affords a fairly good defensive position-a narrow neck of land with some mountains at its base which make an impressive sight from ancient Carthage across the Gulf of Tunis. It is not nearly as wild as Bataan, for it has open olive groves and flat fields. It is 18 miles by 35. It has three small airports which can easily be neutralized. For some time the Axis has been building wooden jetties which can service landing barges...