Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since had steadily drained away public confidence. In a twelvemonth of war the people had been educated to a more accurate measure of military events. Now the forced, artificial pumping-up of the raid as a great thing, only because last week was its first anniversary, fell a bit flat...
Behind them were other hills, and there were hills to the right and the left. But before them, to the right of the Medjerda River's path (see map), the valley stretched straight and flat as far as the eye could see, toward Tunis...
...acre Bricker farm was near Mt. Sterling, on the flat, rich land southwest of Columbus. John Bricker grew up amid fields full of sheep, black-faced lambs, Poland China pigs, sturdy bay work horses, golden wheat and corn that grew go bushels to the acre...
...flat, swampy farms along the eastern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, where the rich, black muck sometimes goes as deep as 20 feet, and the long green beans ripen 45 days after planting, the first group of Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. in World War II went to work last week...
...going. This time, against the cream of the three-year-old crop and despite a gashed hind leg, he really showed his class. From the time he entered the backstretch, where he overtook Blue Swords, his chief rival, he made the race a runaway. His time (1:43 flat) was only f of a second slower than the track record for a mile-and-a-sixteenth...