Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backers of the Murray-Kilgore bill offered a compromise. Instead of the payment table they substituted a flat 75% of previous salary. They kept the $35 top for unemployment pay, but boosted benefits for returning veterans to meet...
There was not an undamaged house within three miles of the kindling wood which had been the water front; scores of buildings were flat or leaning tipsily. Hardly a man, woman or child was un-bandaged. Three hundred and twenty-one men were dead-merchant seamen on the vessels and Negro naval enlisted men on the wharf had simply vanished...
Courts martial voted criminals' penalties for careless, crackpot boys; still there was reckless flying. Probably there was no universal cure for the problem children whom the Army calls hedgehoppers, the Navy flat-hatters...
...post because of basic differences between himself and Mr. Hull, such diplomatic restraint might argue a mealymouthed, chilly and platitudinously correct book. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Welles writes a sprightly prose, hits straight from the shoulder when he is discussing what he considers State Department mistakes, and plants himself flat-footedly on the issues which he holds to be important...
Badger's Paws. Göring was simple and unaffected when he welcomed Welles to his garish home, Karinhall, in the flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard...