Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human merely looks at it with a faint suggestion of hunger, the animal falls flat on its back and dies of happiness, all ready for the frying...
...brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills for booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder's aces whistled past, lost the final two sets 6-0, 6-0. Up in Row P, a lady murmured: "Cruel...
Anatolian peasants saw an airplane come through a narrow opening in the hills, soar down a long valley until it approached a mountain closing the end, make an 180-degree turn and glide back up the valley until it landed in a flat field. When the peasants reached the plane, they found only two dogs inside...
...page historical novel, Remembrance Rock, completed, Author-Farmer Carl Sandburg took some time off for his other big interest. A photographer spotted him on his Flat Rock, N.C. farm exchanging appraising glances with Alison, a champion milk-producing goat...
...Save Paint. She lays her pictures flat on the table so she can rest her elbows while she is working. Old coffee cans hold her brushes, and on the floor at her feet is a gallon can of flat white paint for sizing the sawed pieces of masonite she paints on. Grandma does her pictures in batches, like cookies, simply to save paint. "I'll use this blue for the sky in all of them, and then I'll take this green for all the trees. That way your paints...