Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was some talking going on, but it was very spasmodic. Someone three seats down on my right would say, "Stub Pearson sure is getting knocked flat on his back, Mike, ain't he." (I figured him for the New York, Times). Then from all around would come an answering chorus of affirmative grunts, and the baldish gent on my left would grab in front of me for the binoculars of the man on the right and stare down at the field for a long minute and then add his own assent with a tardy lackadaisical "Yeah...
...know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene and -in short, you are flat...
Witnesses tried to describe the peculiar sound of the tornado. Said one: "... A loud slapping noise, as if a truck was running down the street with all four tires flat." Like "the rumble of a train," said Joe Parker, 12. ("I wasn't scared...
...last week Jersey Standard's tough president, William S. Parish, spokesman for all of the U.S. companies, answered Cordell Hull's proposal with a flat No. He recalled that Mr. Hull himself had insisted, as recently as last year, that expropriation amounted to outright confiscation unless "adequate, effective and prompt compensation" was paid. Real-politiker finally persuaded Mr. Hull that "international law" was not always compatible with Good Neighbor necessities. But Mr. Parish stood firm on the high ground that Hull had once occupied: he demanded arbitration followed by restitution or full payment...
...House of Commons prepared to debate the question in secret, most of British Labor supported Sir Walter's flat-footed stand. Behind him also were three Cabinet Ministers (Supply's Beaverbrook, Agriculture's Hudson, Mines' Grenfell...