Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone who edits a prayer book be an atheist?" To stocky, white-haired Dr. Mordecai M. (for Menahem) Kaplan, 64, dean of the Teachers Institute of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, the question was rhetorical. But the Union of Orthodox Rabbis had a flat answer. For years the Union had regarded Dr. Kaplan with suspicion. Last week it came right out and called him an '"atheist...
Battle Broom. The popular belief that the Army throws away a truck when it gets a flat tire may die hard. But the long convoys of mobile maintenance companies, wich followed the U.S. armies, boast that they tidy up a battlefield in two weeks...
...over France last week peasants and townsmen flocked to counters staffed by harried people and sweatily traded old money for new. They were joined by all U.S. servicemen and women who were not flat broke. The Finance Ministry had decreed a new paper currency issue. All old notes of 50 to 5,000 francs would be invalid after June 16. Purpose: to perk up France's drooping finances by clearing lost or destroyed bank notes off the books; to smoke out black-market and other illegal war fortunes, and hoarding; to cancel French currency still in German hands...
Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
...enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the Ryukus. Army troops on the east turned to free Baten Harbor. This week the 7th Infantry Division cut off the Chinen Peninsula in one of the swiftest advances of the campaign. Ahead lay flat, open land where the Japanese had little chance for effective defense...