Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter what else was said about Brooklyn's flat-nosed, puffy-lipped "Bum-my" Davis, no man could deny that he would fight anything on two feet...
...lion dollars in the bank. But it still wanted only men with foreign service, and it took no women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas day; a flat $500 for a wound; a maximum bonus of $4,500. But the V.F.W. had yet to de clare its willingness to let the youngsters take over...
...spoke to no one, listened impassively (but he had Mass said for him before he came to court in the morning). Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel (who was in good health: Allied physicians had successfully doctored his flat feet...
...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
...friend's living room. In Chicago, Veteran William E. Wimberly moved his wife and four children into a one-room filling station without heat or plumbing. In Yonkers, N.Y., Frank K. Richardson, Purple Heart veteran, and his wife and child were evicted from their three-room flat, had to separate and live with friends. In Los Angeles, an ex-marine pitched a pup tent in Pershing Square...