Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken a full evening's workout, in Angel, to reveal their full stature as clowns. When the script is on their side, as in a lampoon of one of those Mr.-&-Mrs.-at-Breakfast radio programs, the Hartmans can be extremely funny. Grace's flat voice and frozen facial muscles are a perfect foil for her husband's oafish ardors and accomplished gaucherie...
...than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then on, Albert's broth tasted flat. And as he grew up to find that he was favored among men in more than broth and overcoats, Schweitzer was haunted by the feeling that he must somehow redress the balance...
Once, on a bet, Pecos Bill mounted an Oklahoma cyclone and rode it across three states, flattening out mountains and uprooting forests, thus making the flat Texas Panhandle. Aside from such playful interludes, Pecos Bill spent most of his time on "Widow Maker," a horse only Pecos Bill could ride (it threw his bride, Slue-Foot Sue, as high as the moon), tending his fabled range...
Indian Delegate C. H. Bhabha wanted a further amendment in the draft charter of the I.T.O.-International Trade Organization-which the Havana conference hopes to complete. That charter already permits (while deploring in principle) the use of preferential tariffs. It even allows a nation to lay down flat quotas on the amount of goods that may enter that country, provided I.T.O. approves. India's Bhabha said that this was not good enough. India wanted the power to set its own quotas, with or without I.T.O. permission...
...rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies of their dead comrades and, if not too disgusted by the lice, ate their kidneys...