Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson victory cleared some of the doubts raised in the Lord Jeff encounter, which the varsity won on a forfeit. The most positive answer was Pete Morrison's first bout of the year in the unlimited class. Morrison's 245 pounds took only 2.23 of the first period to flatten Tech's Ken Jones under an arm-lock body press...
...sheet of copper valued at hundreds or even thousands of blankets. In one fiercely contested potlatch, the tribal chiefs ganged up to best an upstart brave who had grown rich trading with the whites. It took three coppers with a total value of 39,000 blankets to finally "flatten" the brave...
Most of these flatten out, stop growing and become dependent on some person or institution. A really small percentage be come aggressive and delinquent. "At the turn of the century, communities had to cope with exactly the same types of youth crimes as we have today, and proportionately as often. And that was ... in a day of no mechanization, no easy communications and transportation, no radio, no television, no movies, no comics, no sight method of teaching reading, no world wars...
...reference to his driving energy and the awe in which he is held. His anger can indeed be awe-inspiring. Once, when he discovered that a native was being slowly poisoned by an uncle who wanted his property. Father Bureth broke into the man's hut, threatened to flatten both uncle and hut with his five-ton truck. The poisoning process stopped...
Automen themselves would like to flatten out the sales curve (last week Ford was sponsoring radio ads urging motorists to buy their new cars now, instead of waiting for warmer weather). But they are not sure that it can be done. Even in recent years of relatively mild ups and downs, 25% more cars have been sold in the second quarter than in the first quarter. Consumers already have an incentive to buy in the winter, with the chance at bigger discounts and trade-ins. And what the union seems to forget is that any greater profit for dealers...