Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newfoundland, 400 miles long, fertile and flat, is rimmed by high (200-ft.) rock walls. For a naval base there, the Navy chose 22 acres on the south side of St. John's Harbor. On landlocked Placentia Bay it took an area of two square miles for an air base and training ground for the U. S. Army...
...Starlet Betty Grable, of the sensational legs and looks (last year displayed in Du Barry Was a Lady, since then on the screen), cooed in Manhattan: "I think kindness is the most important thing in a person. Gee, when anybody does anything nice for me I just about fall flat on my face. Every time I even smile at a man any more the papers have me practically married to him. Outsiders don't understand about things. If I ever get married again, and I probably will, some time, I'll marry an actor, at least that...
...tactic: with bayonet and grenade they stormed heights from which their fire drove the enemy out of valleys below. With this tactic they pushed the enemy back on the central Pindus front. With necessary modifications of this tactic they pushed the enemy back of the Kalamas River on the flat coastal front. Devout Greeks, remembering that Italians had invaded Albania on Good Friday and sunk the cruiser Helle on the day of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, saw Providence in the Kalamas River's first flood in 128 years. Using the same device they pressed...
...When President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho takes office on that day with the blessing of the U. S., retiring President Lazaro Cárdenas' revolutionary Six-Year Plan will be over, the promised revolt of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán will be left as flat as a tortilla...
...brilliance and vivacity by piecing out simple footwork with deft body movements, well-timed claps and stomps. But where the De Basil ballet is short on men-its best is David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch and Andre Eglevsky. These dancers perform capably the difficult leaps, entrechats (crossing of the feet in midair) tours...