Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the rate cuts will temporarily flatten airline earnings, most operators are not worried, feel confident their profits will be quickly regained when they get enough planes and equipment to handle all available business. Meanwhile the airlines will put themselves in a better spot to lure still more traffic from the rail and steamship lines...
Right end Len Cummings proceeded to flatten the middle backer up, center Lou Regine, and the short-side guard, Charley Gudaitis, pulled out of the line and raced into the secondary. Meanwhile Richards was streaking through the whole Brown team with tailback Hank Margarita the only man between him and the end zone...
Blimp-built Hermann Göring, who used to boast about how fast his Luftwaffe was going to flatten England, was walking on his heels last week. Increasingly it appeared that the bully boys of his Air Force were in no position to tangle with the R.A.F. on its vast sweeps across the Channel. While the Luftwaffe husbanded its strength, the R.A.F. slugged Nazi bases from Le Havre on up to the Baltic. They also reached 700 miles to Pilsen, Bohemia, where they bombed the huge Skoda works...
...familiar slapstick. You keep remembering how well; everything had started out and looking for a twist, a turn, a climax that doesn't come. When the lights turn up you go out laughing, but a little sorry that the most promising comedy in a long time had to flatten into just a good comedy...
Chief disadvantage of contrarotating propellers is maintenance: warplanes, landing on small unlighted fields by night, snub and flatten their noses all too often, and the propellers' intricate gearing mechanisms are hard to repair. But as motors become ever more powerful, torque-and the need to overcome it-becomes an increasing problem...