Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the nature of the flute. Except under the most expert control, its tones have a whistling, flatulent quality which even a flutist's best friends pass over in discreet silence. Its lower tones tend toward the hoot. When it is played loudly it goes sharp, when softly, flat. Only the greatest virtuosos can play it in tune...
...indications, the main blow will fall in the west. But Franklin Roosevelt spoke of combined attacks "from other points of the compass" than east and south. That could mean anything from Norway to southern France. This week, as Ike Eisenhower said farewell to his Mediterranean command, he made a flat, unhedging prediction: "We will win the European...
Chicago's State Street mobs were literally a danger to life & limb: one shopper clocked the time it took her to navigate a twelve-foot vestibule leading into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Result: 25 minutes flat. According to one description of Marshall Field & Co.'s escalators: "They look like the overhead chute at the stockyards during a heavy run of cattle." And the stampede was mostly for high-priced goods: furs, jewelry, $300-and-up sets of china, antiques, fine furniture, draperies and rugs...
Many a U.S. soldier in England, after sampling Britain's flat, fizzless (and now watery) beer, has longed for the soft drinks of his home-town drugstore. Last week the Army announced that he will soon get them. Army post exchanges are importing soda fountains, drink-dispensing machines, ice-cream freezers. Also on the way: U.S. civilian soda jerkers, who will teach soldiers and civilian workers the trade, perhaps the lingo...
Sometimes the most thoughtful planning cannot anticipate every need, or every quirk of war and weather. Then the improvisations of Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done...