Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt so glittering a villain helps flatten out the hero: actually, however, Montserrat (William Redfield) is flat in himself and pretty unconvincing in his selflessness. Yet, without carrying conviction as a man, he might still-had the play backed him up-have stirred the imagination as a hero. But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion...
Ordinarily Byrd's steamroller would flatten a man like Miller with ease. But two other conservative candidates might divide Harry Byrd's traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
Crisp was the word to describe Harvard's blocking and tackling. The Crimson hit so hard that Brown linemen went down, and stayed down. Blockers didn't stop confusedly when they missed assigned blocks, but went on to flatten the nearest man in a white shirt...
...potential production, even in China and India, is vitally significant (and hopeful). Both great nations, in spite of civil disturbances, are beginning to industrialize. When their populations rise, following the classic curve, they can probably raise enough food to keep their people supplied until the curve begins to flatten out normally...
...When a Cambridge tackler was flattened, he had the un-Harvard discourtesy to bounce up and go flatten the guy with the ball." By exhibiting consistently fine down field blocking, individual tackling, and ground defenses as a whole, the attack of a very strong team was rendered pointless. Art Valpey put it another way: "When they turned the corner, they could taste...