Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While "cot-fishing crews" (four men with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
Keloids. The most mysterious delayed effect was a peculiar kind of scar that formed on the skin of burned survivors. Many months after their burns (from The Bomb's terrific heat and ultraviolet radiation) had healed, victims still had raised, flat patches of thick scar tissue, sometimes covering the whole face or back. These scars'("keloids"), ranging in color from pink to brown, were often extremely sensitive to the touch...
...Flat Voice!" Before he even got on the air, the couple of months became seven. When he did, it was by a flounder. An unwary adman, carrying an Allen audition record to the president of a corn products company, took the costly economy of going by Manhattan subway. On the way. the portable record-player got banged up. All the sponsor could hear was Allen's rasp. "Get me that man with the flat voice!" he ordered...
...eventual goal of industrial harmony cannot be attained by a series of step gap measures. In many cases the issue is as much sociological as economic. Workers grow dissatisfied with their jobs because the worker has become just another handle on a machine. No legislative flat can create a system in which each worker feels that he is making a contribution to society and that he is a necessary part of the nation's life. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error methods, worked out by labor and management leaders in each plant or industry, will on acceptable...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Mendelssohn program: the Octet in E-Flat Major, the Fifth (Reformation) Symphony, Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...