Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic steamroller was to flatten: 1) the few remaining Constitutionalists who object to Congress abdicating its power over the public purse; 2) the pork-packers who want to salt away some of the $4,000,000,000 for their constituencies; 3) the Ickes-haters, who, thoroughly angered by the PWAdministrator's treatment of Congress, object to giving him more spending money (see p. 22). For generations all good House steamrollers have had a special attachment for rolling over such opposition-the Rules Committee...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
Coach Dana X. Bible, who plasters the Nebraska locker room with such slogans as "They Shall Not Score," "An Undefeated Team Doesn't Just Happen-It's a Thing We Have to Make," saw his team flatten Kansas, 12-to-0, win the Big Six title for the third successive year. Undefeated, untied, Nebraska yielded only one touchdown this season, to Oklahoma...
...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...
...check for $6 for both, from Editor Orville J. Victor of Banner Weekly, put an end to Patten's father's determination, to make Willie a carpenter, and his mother's hope that he would become a minister. In the next ten years Author Gilbert Flatten (he had dropped his first name because people called him Willie) achieved no little success as a prolific writer of western thrillers for the Beadle & Adams publications. He was nearing the end of his rope of ideas when in 1895 Street & Smith, publishers, proposed the juvenile series about a single character...