Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
With all the impressive might of a carrier strike, the U.S. Navy last week brought its rebellion into the open. Risking their careers, the Navy's highest-ranking officers ranged themselves in flat opposition to the declared policies of the U.S. Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President...
...parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which the House had already voted to continue for another year. Said Georgia's Russell, ominously: "Senators will hear from their farmer constituents if this amendment shall be defeated...
...midnight chase through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
Senator George D. Aiken, leader in the fight for farm supports, received a serious setback this weekend when a Joint Conference Committee of Congress agreed tentatively to adopt a flat 90 percent of parity for the support of basic farm crops. But immediately after, the Committee withdrew its decision, leaving Senator Aiken confused, uncertain, and unhappy...