Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cities and seven states some 16,000 workers trooped back into the Libbey-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants, ended a strike which had tied up an estimated 75% of the nation's flat glass production since Oct. 22. The basis of settlement: a 10.7? an hour pay increase retroactive to Oct. 2: a contract guaranteeing new wage talks on 20 days' notice by the union...
White-haired at 63, he was still burly, still erect. Going to the witness chair, he walked into the glare of cameramen's klieg lights with the air of a man expecting complete vindication. For two days, with the flat authority of the quarterdeck, he hammered away at the central theme of his defense-that the Navy had kept him so inadequately informed that he had been "misled" into believing an attack on Hawaii was "not imminent or probable...
Among some of the medical aids, which Orthopedist Splithoff says should be tried only with a doctor's advice: a corset-belt to fit the lower back; special shoes for flat feet-a common cause of back troubles; massages and home exercises; a horsehair mattress instead of an innerspring mattress; radiant heat, possibly an old-fashioned electric toaster; a fat-reducing diet; plenty of sleep...
...after World War I he suddenly decided that his fantasies were "flat"; he shuffled off to Buffalo and got a job designing wallpaper. Sundays he painted literal descriptions of the more depressing sights he saw around town. They sold well enough for him to retire to suburban Gardenville in 1929 and concentrate on showing the U.S. its dreary back streets and railroad sidings. Burchfield has the unassuming confidence of a man who has learned a lot slowly, believes that now, in combining fantasy and realism, he has come full circle. Says he: "All the rest was a sort of preparation...
...became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob who ached to shine in high society. Then Actor Clark cut up in it. The result, here & there, is as hilarious as it is heterodox. But mostly it falls flat...