Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant Russian held me for at least 30 seconds while he kissed all over the U.S. insignia on my coat. They shouted in all languages but sometimes in American phrases; one little Pole ran beside us until he dropped flat, shouting desperately: "Hello, boys...
...agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
...been evacuated to the interior of Germany) who were as starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving and the flat places, the swelling muscles which men usually have. They walk or creep or lie around and seem about as animate as the barracks and fence posts and the stones on Buchenwald's bare, hard-packed earth, and when they are dead they are corpses and then gone...
...voice sounded youthful; it also sounded as though its owner could smile. His voice was shallow, occasionally flat, and pitched a little too high for comfort (he lowered the pitch for his second broadcast). The President tended to chant his carefully enunciated phrases by syllables-one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four. His pronunciations had Missouri and Midwest antecedents: "entire"' was "ENtire...
...nothing to soften the blow. Three days after the cutback came, Willow Run began to lay off its 22,000 workers, thousands at a time. By the end of July all will be gone. Then the vast, $100,000,000 plant will be closed up tight. WPB, caught flat-footed by the Army's announcement, had no other work...