Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose swimmers have been breaking records for 25 years, Ford set out to smash the classic 51. Last week, during a dual meet with Springfield College (which Yale won, 59-to-16), he did it - by three-tenths of a second. "Some day he will do 100 under 50 flat," beamed Kiphuth...
Unable to break a long standing habit, Powell works mostly at night, most of the time flat on his back because he is still too weak to sit up more than an hour a day. One night he almost suffered a serious eye injury when a heavy book fell from his hands as he dozed...
Carrierman to the core, Commander Collett probed deeper, came up with a doctrine in flat opposition to the conviction of most high-ranking naval officers that there is still substantial need for the battleship. Of Midway, one of the decisive battles of world history, he wrote...
...which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure to their flat chests. In the last panel a tough Yank, spotting well-built Burma, yells: "Hey, you! Hurry it up. I gotta get all them melons back to th' mess hall...
...Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same year Adolf Hitler promised the German people "the greatest victory in our history...