Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenny Cure. The patients were placed flat on their backs on a firm mattress which did not quite reach to the footboard of the bed. Their feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, were set squarely against the footboard (so that the children could exercise, without effort, the muscular reflexes used for standing up). Their arms were kept at their sides, their knees straight. No splints or casts were used. Hot packs, made of pieces of blankets wrung out of boiling water, were laid on each child's twitching limbs, changed every two hours-in serious cases...
...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
Mary Welsh was in London for every one of its 400-odd air raids. Once a shell fragment sailed through the window of her Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front...
...their failure, the air force had many an embarrassed explanation-staleness, the difficulty of hitting a moving target with flat bombing, "just one of those bad days." Few mentioned what was in everybody's mind, because it was not an explanation. Air Forces men newly arrived from the States had told the veterans in Australia what they had bitterly begun to suspect: to the folks at home Australia was only a side show...
...floor window. The youths were very calm. They walked on slowly. And then, a bugle sounded. All the soldiers with anchors on their hats marched out and the youths in seersucker coats were plainly disturbed. They ran and hid in a big building with huge white pillars and long flat steps. The visitors never saw them again...