Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign had been fought almost solely over one supercharged issue: the Dominion Government's policy of partial military conscription. The Liberal candidate was the man charged with making that policy work: National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had asked for McNaughton's election. The riding had returned Liberals to Parliament in 1935 and 1940. But this time it was different...
American divisions had hammered the bulge flat. In retaking Monschau, the troops regained the last of the German towns taken by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's winter offensive. Krewinkel, the last German-held town in easternmost Belgium, fell. Now a new phase was opening...
...simplified postal money order in dollar denominations, paste on stamps for odd cents. Purchasers write in the name of the creditor and drop the order in the mail. Gone is the bother of writing out applications, waiting for the clerk to labor over the old form. Flat-rate cost...
...hours in the U.S. Senate. His were not the sentiments of traditional isolation. They were the sentiments of internationalism. But Wheeler's failure to recognize the fact and use of force in the current world was notably out of key with the U.S. mood; his speech fell flounder-flat...
...Protestant churches think that funerals cost too much, but they have tried only half-heartedly to get funeral prices down. The Federal Council of Churches, feeling that the time had come for action, made a survey, came up with a flat charge: many an undertaker, cemetery and tombstone maker is fattening on human grief...