Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked to shop stewards and they talked to us, and I don't mind saying what they said was straight. I told them we'd got to make that factory go flat out. I was very much impressed with their attitude...
...broadcast went on; so did the party. Members had planned to make Rationer Henderson ride a streetcar to the party, stand waiting at two transfer points; they no longer had the heart and called a taxi instead. To most of Local Board 234.3 their skits now sounded a little flat. But if the ex-Price Boss was not having a fine time he never once...
...Tunisian campaign was still at a stalemate (see below), but General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery continued to roll along the flat and ugly coast. Transport planes helped move up his vast and vital supplies. Last week, when his Eighth Army marched under the ludicrous triumphal Marble Arch near El Aghéila, one of several which Mussolini had erected along his African highway, he was farther west than any British commander had ever been before in the long, seesaw African campaign...
Long retired from parish work, he sits all day in his cramped flat off Manhattan's Times Square. In the last 20 months, 140,000 people, simply by dialing his phone number (Circle 6-6483), have heard Mr. Hall preach a sermon...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...