Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squeeze Play. In Washington, the Ralph Burlesons and their seven children, barred from a six-room house because they would "overcrowd" it, snuggled together in a one-room flat...
Objectors ranged from flat-out protectionists, representing the myriad local interests of the U.S., to Republicans who view anything Democratic with suspicion. U.S. businessmen found sympathetic listeners. State was not giving them proper consideration, they saM; they had no confidence in State's final decisions. Republicans cupped their ears...
...House with shaggy-haired Football Coach Jimmy Conzelman, Tunney announced to reporters that the country is in good hands. "I never saw a more solid citizen. His eye is clear and he's just as solid as a wall. His jaw is square and his stomach is as flat as an athlete...
...Houston calls itself the Chicago of the South, and indeed there are resemblances. It has the unlimited elbow room of the flat country. It also has a canal which looks and smells much like ours. It has that unbounded energy and confidence in the future that used to characterize Chicago. It is remarkable for the newness of its ... buildings. Traffic is well regulated, but the drivers make more noise than I have ever heard...
Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...