Word: flatting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chester Bowles' plan for a breather (not a flat no-strike pledge) was two-edged. By it he hoped1) to save for labor some semblance of price controls; 2) to give the President something positive to say to Congress if, as expected, it sends him a tattered OPA bill he might be tempted to veto. The President thus might be able to say: I have a pact for a year's peace, for production's sake. Now give labor the assurance that rising prices will not nullify better wages...
...happened in the eighth. Joe Louis closed in. He hit Conn's head with two short, paralyzing rights and a left hook. The three blows left Conn flat on his back, eyes open, listening to the referee's count. As soon as he came to, Conn put the thoughts of 45,266 cash customers into words: "It was a stinking fight...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 77, dislikes buildings "all dressed up in military fashion, heels together, eyes front. . . ." He makes his houses lie flat on the ground and stretch out. To his followers, the old master is a modern Michelangelo whose sculptures can be lived...
...Curran, who had never really wanted a strike, was soon satisfied after Government spokesmen pushed a stack of chips to the middle of the table. The chips: for all seamen, a $17.50 flat monthly increase and overtime at $1 an hour. With normal overtime, now to begin after 48 hours instead of 56, this would give an AB (now making $145 a month) close to $200-what he earned in wartime. This was good enough for Curran's seagoing National Maritime Union...
...issue of his intellectual quarterly Christianity & Society, neo-orthodoxy's Reinhold Niebuhr uncorked a reply that minced no words. "The animus of the [Unitarian] attack," he charged, "is primarily directed against the classical tradition of Christianity in any of its forms." Then he went on to a flat refutation of the Unitarian authors' two main theses-which, he said, revealed "the stupidity and the malice of the pamphlet...