Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third morning was payoff time: the convoy was off Mindoro. As the sky lightened behind Mindoro's peaks, destroyers and rocket ships raced inshore, laying down a barrage on the flat, inviting coast. No settlement was to be shelled unless Japs were detected, and none were...
...little hard to understand why the picture falls so flat, with so fine an actor as Mr. Lukas in it, as well as intelligent writing, direction and production. A partial explanation may be the fact that everyone paid too-loving attention to the film's chief virtues, which are nice to look at but are not the substance of good melodrama. The virtues: 1) some wintry Manhattan street scenes; 2) a memorable setting and costuming of the turn of the century; 3) Hedy Lamarr...
...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...
...work went on. Flanders and his men restored a bomb-clogged deep-water well, installed a purification system, built gasoline storage plants. When a bluff stood in the path of one runway, they simply blasted it flat. In all, they reshaped over four million square yards of rock and coral...
...Fields, great, greying, polyp-nosed comedian, whose propensity for strong spirits is famed,* lay abed in Los Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, his nose in a sling, roundly denying reports that he had fallen flat on his face. Fields: "I never reach my face when I fall flat because I can't get past my nose. ... I was leaning too heavy on a cane getting into bed. The cane slipped and I fell. It hurts quite a bit, y'know, and I have to resort to medicinal mixtures...