Word: flatted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bruins' got their first touchdown after two minutes of play on a 25-yard pass from Leone to Andy Roth. Leone threw to Whitey Alexander in the left flat for the extra point. An interception set up another Brown tally in the second period with Leone passing to Tom Kelleher in the end zone and then hitting Hardy Burgin for another extra point...
...doubt so glittering a villain helps flatten out the hero: actually, however, Montserrat (William Redfield) is flat in himself and pretty unconvincing in his selflessness. Yet, without carrying conviction as a man, he might still-had the play backed him up-have stirred the imagination as a hero. But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion...
...wise and courageous attempt by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to set the world on the road to lasting peace"; 2) "Difficulties have developed, not from the agreements reached at Yalta, but from the failure of the Soviet Union to honor those agreements." His book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made and should be historically important, but many a reader will refuse to let Russian skulduggery take the whole rap for the Yaltese cross...
...most. The general impression ereated was that they needed rehearsing--their faces were buried in their scores and they consequently didn't watch Mr. Knapp, their conductor. The unfortunate result was that as a section fell behind on the beat it made the rest of the club go flat despite the piano accompaniment. When they sang folk songs and spiritual afterwards without music, however, this failing largely vanished...
Stewart hasn't the glimmer of an idea how men feel when their world is suddenly snuffed out, but he does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...