Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successes had been undeniably brilliant. Before the Yugoslavs had even been able to take battle stations, the Nazis had virtually completed the first phase of Blitzkrieg-the wild, daring dash for centers of communication and command. And they had done this just as fast as if the terrain were flat as Denmark. But Dusan Simovitch had been in tight spots before...
...Nazis took Monastir Gap from its few Yugoslav defenders and drove about 25 miles into Greece. In the opening engagements that then occurred the Greeks and British came back at them with fury, and with daring to match daring. In the flat plains between Monastir (Bitolj) and Fiorina, British engaged Germans in the first mechanized encounter since Dunkirk...
...strictly limited editions of 100 or less), Lewenthal began making them in lots of 250. The prints sold at first like hot cakes, then slumped when the novelty wore off. Reeves Lewenthal thereupon took to the mails, and business began to boom. To his 26 artists Lewenthal paid a flat rate of $200 for each print plate; those who sold more carried those who sold less. Since Lewenthal owned the plates outright, there was no limit to the number of prints he could make from each plate. When the issues from ten of an artist's plates sold...
Pirnie's century-sprint win over B. C.'s famous Gill Walker was the meet's most notable accomplishment. Walker has hit 9.8 seconds in the past but Pirnie has still not broken a flat 10 seconds. Pirnie's other place came in the 220 dash when he beat B. C.'s co-captain Bill Dowd to the tape. Donahue took his customary firsts in the two hurdle events...
...meantime has submitted a written account of the anti-discrimination case, part of which reads: "We feel this to be a question of national interest, involving not only a breech of democracy in our armed forces which should be built for the defense of democracy, but also a flat contradiction between the statement of an Admiral of our Navy and the sworn affidavit of two members of Harvard University...