Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the Japanese invasion force went nine Army Flying Fortresses. Bombing from the flat, the Boeings got hits on a transport and a cruiser, left them burning. Night fell. By moonlight, four Consolidated Catalinas lumbered into the fleet, let drive with torpedoes, hit two big ships. The Japs still plowed...
...Attu, Kiska and Agattu, seized by the Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...
...jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
...Husbands Necessary? (Paramount) may serve to record on celluloid a pattern of U.S. social behavior once considered cute: the late, unlamented antics of the country-club set. But as an attempt at scatterbrained domestic frivolity, it falls flat on its farce...
WAAFs originally did all table-waiting, still do office-girl chores. Men and officers like the WAAFs, who, on the average, are small, rounded, unaffected and friendly and clump busily around in flat shoes, hideous grey cotton stockings and broad smiles. Personnel officers have noted that the morale is better on posts which have uniformed girls, but when the WAAFs were waiting on table the doughboys showed a tendency to call them Sugar, Honey, and wisecrack with them as with waitresses of the world, which is not considered proper treatment for lady troops. Middleaged, local domestics are now doing most...