Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rommel was improving a position in which he already held all the advantage. He and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim, commander of the Axis forces in the north, occupied a rim of commanding heights from Mateur south to the Mareth Line. Behind them was the flat coastal plain over which they could move rapidly against any vulnerable Allied point. General Dwight Eisenhower was forced to operate across a muddy terrain at the tough end of supply lines some 400 miles long...
...Family early in 1941 under a table in a London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...
Last week, though its final tooling up was still months away, the vast, flat topped, windowless Marietta building stood about complete. Designed and constructed by slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., work began eleven months ago under the watchful eye of Army engineers. The ultimate in aircraft plants, the new factory will use thousands of machines and workers to turn out bombers -the type still a military secret...
...would drop like a shot, never taking her eyes off me. Then she would sit on signal (too far away to hear), and on the "come" signal fly to me. When she was still 50 feet away I'd signal "down," and she'd drop flat, skidding on her little stomach, and really it made your heart swell to see her. The Colonel reviewed us and I worked Delia as a solo demonstration and she won top honors. . . . She knew it too, and was so proud heeling at my side and prancing like a high-spirited horse. Yesterday...
Purpose of all this: to aid enforcement of rationing, to conserve manpower and paper, to deaden the buying incentive (which might lead to dangerous inflation). Result: a flat dreariness in what advertising is left...