Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
...world last week was out flat on the analyst's couch. What started wars, it appeared, was that everybody felt as guilty as Cain. To get rid of the guilt feelings, you had to do something violent. After having done something violent, you of course felt guilty again. After that-and so on, until the decline and fall of Western civilization...
...Filey Camp on the Yorkshire coast last fortnight with his wife Mary, their two children and some 400 other workers from the Midland's woolen-weaving city of Bradford, Alf Murgatroyd had little time to stand and wonder what next. Bustling all around him on the long, flat station platform was a group of bright young girls and athletic men in red blazers. Bursting with good cheer, they whisked Alf and his friends over green fields to a cluster of glass-sided buildings topped by a huge white tower bearing the word "Butlin's" in four-foot letters...
Gustav Mahler's massive Eighth Symphony is something like Texas-big as all get-out, very impressive in spots, and full of flat and windy stretches. It requires so huge a cast that it has seldom been performed in the U.S. (the last time was in 1942). Last week, in Hollywood's huge open-air Bowl, Conductor Eugene Ormandy roamed over it with an orchestra of 120, including an organ, two harps and a mandolin; two choruses of 350 each; a boy's choir of 100; seven vocal soloists and a separate band of eight trumpets...
...people began to wonder. Following Minister Gardiner's flat announcement that he was running, white-haired Minister St. Laurent declared nobly: "I believe that any member whom the party selects would feel it honorable to accept. I am doing nothing to influence the choice of the party...