Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After midnight and three doses of wilted but invigorating ice cream, Vag decided to go home. "Isn't it wonderful?" he meditated. "Four more of these and my feet will be flat enough...
...some official quarters in Washington attempts were made to shrug off the obscure Jap moves in the Aleutians as feints or minor encroachments. But the U.S. had reason to worry. Kiska has not only a good harbor but some flat land for airfields. The busy little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
...great scene seemed certain to be enacted again. Winston Churchill had flown back to Britain and this week would again bulge up in Parliament to face, and probably outface, his critics. Though he had risked the flat statement "Egypt will be held," even the speedy fall of Egypt was not likely to upset his Prime Ministership...
...Tory 1922 Committee were hotly angry with him on that account. His motion would allow Prime Minister Churchill to call for a vote on the motion, rather than on dissociating the Prime Ministership and Defense Ministership. However many would vote for the latter, few, if any, would give a flat no-confidence vote to the Churchill Government...
...days of the carrier, too, numbered? When long-range, land-based bombers and fighters really get into action, will the flat-top be as obsolete as the battlewagon...