Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms. One by one the snipers were killed, but they did not fall from the trees. For many days, so the handsome and friendly Polynesians on the island told Colonel Carlson, the Japs had been strapped into the trees, occasionally receiving food and water...
...quality of U.S. fighting planes. Only last fortnight, at a press conference called expressly to give Washington correspondents the truth, General Arnold had been asked about a report that U.S. fighter pilots were using British Spitfires in preference to available U.S. fighters. General Arnold called this report "a flat...
...bought it outright and a mechanic drove him home. Wee Boy did the chauffering and things went smoothly until they got a flat tire. A mechanic came down from Memphis to fix the first one. Old Man Town chopped the second one off. After that they got along for a while on the naked...
...Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have helped immeasurably...
...voice was unprofessional, big, with a flat, tolling quality that frequently gave professionals the creeps. No listener remembered its like-least of all originating from censor-shrouded Cairo, that graveyard for radio correspondents...