Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found myself on my feet for the first time in eight weeks, and they gave beneath me and I fell flat on my face, half in and half out of the saloon. My life belt was under my chair and I put it on from ground level...
...Joseph Stalin is not given to oratorical pyrotechnics. Only two or three times a year does he appear on the parapet of Lenin's tomb in Red Square, wearing his flat military cap, his military tunic, his high Russian boots. He attends Party meetings but rarely public gatherings. He has made only one radio speech and is not likely to make many more. His thick Georgian accent sounds strange to Russia...
...staging its Sunday night Screen Guild Theatre over 64 CBS stations, the late Andrew Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. pays the living William Green's Screen Actors Guild a flat $10,000 a week. It pays other costs, too-some $5,000 for production costs, $8,350 for air time. But the S. A. G.'s weekly $10,000, for which it volunteers the talents of 90% of Hollywood's great, goes straight into a Motion Picture Relief Fund, earmarked for the construction of a cinema old folks' home...