Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schwellenbach's pleas for seizure of the strikebound J. I. Case Co. and Allis-Chalmers Corp. were answered this week with a flat White House refusal...
...Locusts. They brought wives and children and grandmothers with them. In Cleveland's western outskirts, on a treeless sunbaked flat of weeds and dust, 20,000 of them made a tidy camp. There they parked their trailers, pitched tents, built their own privies and slept like Spartans on mats of straw...
Avila Camacho had thrown the gates wide: Bellas Artes' marble and stained glass magnificence bulged with some 500 entries; more than 400 of them were paintings. Long halls were devoted to unknowns from all parts of Mexico. Their work ranged from flat, bright-colored primitives and the overfinicky naturalism of Sunday painters to imitations of imitations of the slick stuff produced in Mexico City...
Jones' body was marked with slashes and bruises, which Richardson said apparently had been inflicted with a flat object, such as a wide leather belt or a thick plank...
...even greater feat was attempted in Carnegie Hall in 1924 by a double threat musician named Paul Stassévitch, who fiddled through Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major, then shifted to the keyboard for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The critics shuddered...