Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon they were balancing teacups on their knees in white folks' houses, smoking tight-rolled English cigarets and guzzling flat English ale. When they wrote the folks back home, perhaps they complained of the damp English weather, the limp food. Or perhaps they mentioned stout John Parrish, pubkeeper of The Bull, who said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners...
After the Lowlands invasion, Louie Macy returned to Manhattan, soon quit Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
...Dutch airfield 150 Nazis in full flying kit were drawn up as though for pay-day parade, unmindful that July 4 was a special day in the non-Nazi world, a day when something extraordinary might happen. It did. The Nazis were caught flat-footed on their airfield by a tight-flying contingent of twelve Douglas twin-motored bombers, half of them manned by Americans, half by Britons, which sent the Germans scuttling for cover amid bomb bursts and the firecracker chatter of machine guns...
WASHINGTON--With the flat statement that the national welfare must come first, President Roosevelt said today he may have to requisition every automobile tire in the United States if world conditions grow worse...
...Tortilla Flat (Frank Morgan, Spencer Tracy. Hedy Lamarr; TIME...