Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from windburned, dusty faces, dug in reefer pockets for cigarets. Motorcyclists propped their machines on stands, squinted appraisingly at engines. The long-legged, flat-backed Troop Commander brushed oil-stains from his face with a reddened hand and walked back along the column, to see how things were...
...Germans choose to attack in the flat reaches of northern Yugoslavia the Yugoslavs will have a hard time. This would be a Blitz campaign through Blitz country, and to resist it the Yugoslavs would need modern weapons of the best, tanks, anti-tank guns and a crack Air Force. That they have aggressive Air Force personnel was indicated by the fact that last week's coup was engineered by the Air Force. Not only did Air Force Chief General Dusan Simovitch take over the Government: his blue-uniformed fliers personally commanded the tanks which supported his revolt...
...flat sandbox floored with fine, clean sand, on the third floor of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, squatted two full-blooded Navajo medicine men. The elder, Charley Turquoise, sported a bushy black mustache that belied his 73 years. The younger one was Dinay Chilli Bitsoey, which means "Short Man's Grandson." They were practicing one of the oldest and most mysterious arts...
...locusts John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...