Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was 17, he entered the guttural, drill-sharp barrack routine of the German Imperial Army. Then came the four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
...Sergeant at Arms walked up the aisle, removed the heavy gold mace from the table before the Speaker's chair. A hush settled on the House of Commons. A clerk spoke, in flat tones: "It is with extreme sorrow I have to inform the House that Mr. Speaker died this afternoon...
...have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If not, they will insist upon "a flat cents-per-hour raise to the base rates of pay . . . to reflect the cost-of-living increase that will have taken place from May 15, 1942 to Aug. 15, 1943 . . . paid in money...
Schumann: Quintet in E-Flat Major (The Busch Quartet with Rudolf Serkin, pianist; Columbia; 8 sides). Up-to-date sound technique and sympathetic playing make this the finest recording of Schumann's chamber-music masterpiece...
These and the other much-moved listeners probably did not stop to analyze what had pulled at their hearts. It was not the words. In any other month they might have sounded flat. It was the woman, the way she clutched her handkerchief and brought her tight hand down on the desk for emphasis, the flash in her eyes which reflected something deep in her experience. Madame Chiang and China know the meaning of endurance. Through this woman, a few Americans saw and understood China...