Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office of the N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
...China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful in Moscow, but he will be missed in Chungking...
Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...
...great toe. Normally this bone carries two-sixths of the weight of the body. If it is short or wobbly, the second metatarsal has to take up the load. Weak ankles are usually caused by a loose-jointed metatarsal; so are heels worn down on one side. Real flat feet are rare, the result of long standing metatarsal trouble...
While news photographers clucked and clicked, the heavyweight champion of the world stood impassively, as always, in this outfit he will wear for Uncle Sam. Joe Louis Barrow had passed his physical exam a few days before with the comment: "Guess I haven't got those flat feet I was afraid of." Asked what he would do if he saw a Jap, he drawled: "In the line of duty I'll defend myself." On the day he was due to report at camp, Joe left his suite in Harlem's best hotel, had his chauffeur drive...