Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirming about on the floor, on treating big Audy Guadielle to "gie it ta me good," the plaid-shirted Houdini, bearing the best of references from Yale, Princeton, and Penn, kept up a steady stream of Scotch brogue while he struggled out of the knots in two seconds flat. Not letting the program leg for a minute, he then broke out into some ballads lauding bonnie Scotland's "nicht nichts" and "Maxwellton's bracs...
...outfit. He's the best soldier we have. The kid's hard as nails. He has character, brains, personality-and more surplus energy than anyone I've ever known. Like all 18-year-olds, he's up against the problems of women and liquor. A flat "No" certainly isn't the answer to those problems. It's a tough stage for any youngster. And I don't think prohibition is making it easier for him to work it out for himself...
Coffee rationing was a painful topic in Washington. In doling out sugar and gasoline, the War Production Board and Office of Price Administration had done fairly neat jobs. Now, on their third try, they had fallen flat on their faces...
...Although State quotas of doctors needed for war were set on a flat population ratio so as to leave one physician for every 1,500 civilians, it has been easier to recruit doctors in the low-income areas than in the States where a captaincy is a painful financial comedown for a successful medico...
Georgia, more spectacular of the two, boasts the most publicized player of the year. Every football fan who can read knows about Frankie Sinkwich's flat feet, his un-Southern background (Youngstown, Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled...