Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against a Democratic candidate unbeholden to Boss Kelly and not responsible for any part of his administration, the standard G.O.P. issues-sanitation, politics on the school board, police inefficiency -fell flat. Root resorted to rhetoric. Waving his arms, his forelock falling across his eyes, he denounced President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall, a third world war. Fed up, many Republicans were supporting Kennelly. Some even contributed money to his campaign...
...medical schools last year turned out a record-breaking 5,800 graduates. The effort almost knocked them flat on their backs. Last week many of the schools, admitting that they were in serious financial distress, issued an urgent S.O.S. The presidents of 19 universities embracing the nation's top medical schools* solemnly declared: "We warn our fellow citizens that without their prompt and generous aid, our medical schools . . . cannot be expected to safeguard the future health of American citizens and their children...
...difficult to see how this program is to be implemented if the occupying powers, as the Secretary suggests, reduce their forces below the present strength. Redemption can come only under strict supervision. Democracy is just a word to the German today, and it will never become more merely by flat. For though the statics of democracy may be learned by rote, the dynamics must be bred into a people over a period of generations--merely teaching the Germans to hold elections is not enough. The occupation will be completed successfully not when the Germans act in a democratic manner...
...applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a Houston mailman who had graduated from a small Southern college, was qualified in every respect but one: he was a Negro. He was the first who ever tried to enter the University. He was turned down flat...
Usually he arrives at his office on the 29th floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building at 9 a.m. He dislikes paper shuffling so much that his broad, flat-topped desk is almost always clean of everything except a big blotter. At 5 p.m. he usually leaves for home-and he tries not to take any work with him. On the way, he drops in at the University Club for a swim. He feels that a little exercise every day is the reason why he has not missed a day's work in 30 years...