Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat on hip, or hand relaxed in pocket...
Mozart-Bassoon Concerto in B flat...
...Texas Panhandle is a high (4,000 ft.) plateau, famed for its freakish weather, its cities that rise abruptly above the plain, its ranches, wheat and oil fields. It is so flat and landmarks are so rare that around Amarillo (pop. 52,000) early settlers plowed furrows from settlement to settlement to guide travelers across the trackless, treeless expanse. One such furrow was about 150 miles long. It was so bleak that an army officer who explored it in 1849 reported: "This country is, and must remain, uninhabited forever." Its wind and weather became so famous that Texans said, "There...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, advocated sending American ship convoys to Ireland and suggested a basic revision of "our whole neutrality policy." He also stated that the United States could prevent Japan from entering the war by issuing a "flat and clear warning that we will fight if she attacks Singapore or the Dutch East Indies...
Throughout the '305, profit-per-ton leadership shuttled back & forth between Chicago's Inland Steel and Pittsburgh's National Steel, spry mass-producers of flat steels. During those years, steel fans assumed that when the industry got back to 90% operations, profit-per-ton leadership would be captured by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem. Reason: each derives great leverage from its heavy (structural) steel capacity, cleans up when this last, higher-profit margin of its capacity goes to work. Last week U. S.'s and Bethlehem's leverage departments were at full blast, and their...