Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finish? When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery wrote these words, the men of whom he was so justly proud were busily engaged in driving Rommel into his last North African refuge. Rommel's main forces were already streaming through Enfidaville (see map), out of the flat plain and into the fortress hills. The battle of central Tunisia was virtually finished and won. The Eighth Army had traveled nearly 150 miles in a week...
There is a saying that the only thing which tires a Gurkha is walking along a flat place. They went up Djebel Fatnassa with their wicked kukris, long curved blades sharpened on the inner edge, at the ready. In Nepal they use kukris to cut their enemies' heads off. At Djebel Fatnassa they reached their objectives with hardly a sound; dying Italians made the only noises...
...slumped in the barber chair and looked into the big mirror. A blank, "How'd you like it, sir? Short? Medium? Long?--The barber's cagerly flat voice jarred him out of the void...
Everybody loves a comeback. Last week flat-faced, chocolate-colored little Henry Armstrong, who once held the feather, light-and welterweight championships of the world simultaneously, endeared him self to the ring fans with one of the fightingest comebacks that ever lost the judges' decision. His defeat was a great success...
...journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...