Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime the Pump." The other voice of the week was the flat twang of Ohio's Bob Taft. His galoshes firmly buckled against Midwest winter weather, he tromped across six states, flailing away at federal spending, high taxes, Government controls. Bob Taft was still running against the New Deal, but as always, he met his troubles head-on in that dogged spirit which makes men admire him even though they disagree with...
Then Jenny died. Her last words were: "Karl, my strength is broken." So was his. On March 14, 1883, death came quietly to Karl Marx as he sat in his easy chair. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery under a flat stone. At the grave, Friedrich Engels said: "The greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. . . . He discovered the simple fact . . . that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion...
...autumnal Ganges floods had receded at Allahabad, baring a five-square-mile mud flat where three sacred rivers join-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come...
...paintings were spread flat on the floor, surrounded by tiny fences. Gallerygoers threaded among them at Colorado Springs last week like children in a greenhouse, fascinated by things they never imagined before. At their feet, protected by painted rainbows and sacred animals, lay Mother Earth and Father Sky, Dawn Boy, Sun and Moon-all weirdly elongated figures, with plumed, square masks for the female powers and round masks for the male. Carrying medicine bundles and lightning, they paraded among cornstalks, bluebirds and a host of stranger Powers, including Dontso...
There were few construction workers in Scio, so Reese's pottery workers learned how to build. Men & women worked at a flat $1 an hour, many for 48 hours a week. The women's clubs served meals on the job. The Quonset buildings went up four times as fast as they had even in disaster-stricken Texas City...