Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief John Osborne: "Perhaps Bevin's words seemed flat to his British hearers because so much of his history had already been made. Part of the profound change that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
John Doe had a hernia 15 years ago-and he still talks about his operation. It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
...hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat of the blade); to avoid the "wobbles" which leave wavering traces...
...taxes. Minnesota's dogged Harold Knutson was determined to get fast action on his bill to save taxpayers an estimated $5.6 billion. As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Republican Knutson meant to give short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile...
Unlike the outfits of other colleges, they take the financial load of buying ammunition, targets, and rifles on themselves, and even provide their own transportation to their few shoulder-to-shoulder matches. Flat wallets, however, have kept them to mail matches for the most part, and the enthusiastic group isn't happy about...