Word: flatters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy's big push, if it comes in the next week or two, will probably be launched in the flatter terrain of the west. From the central mountains to the U.N.'s western anchor on the Imjin, troops and unit commanders braced themselves every day and every night...
...your first appearance, do not waste your time or ours telling us so. We are likely to discover for ourselves that you are a novice, but will think none the less of you for it . . . Neither disparage yourself nor flatter the justices. We think well enough of ourselves already...
...flatter anyone," says British-born Portrait Painter Gerald Brockhurst, 59. "I just paint them in the best possible light." In Manhattan last week a show of 24 of his oils and portrait drawings shed Brockhurst's best light on 24 Americans, mostly socialites and businessmen...
...people of medieval Yvetot dethrone their king. Then the women find that their menfolk are too busy running the state to work their land or flatter their wives. So they rebel and restore the king. Meantime, the king does his bit by making love to a serving girl, who eventually becomes queen of Yvetot. That leaves the women in charge of things, as usual, and everybody takes it happily from there...
...burned and strafed the boats, wheeled and roared back at the target again. Fleeing Red soldiers were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked himself. "It's a terrible thing," he said, "to snuff out lives that...