Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...
...N.F.L.U. and its predecessors never got more than about 400,000 members in prewar Japan, never bargained effectively. Imperial Japan's "cheap labor" economy had no taste for unions; her Shinto gods were made to view them with alarm. After 1937-5 "China Incident," the militarists smashed them flat...
...night last week Mrs. Coombes was sitting in the front room of her dingy first-floor flat, waiting for Robert. He had been released from a training school three weeks before. About 9 o'clock he came in. His trousers were muddy and covered with wet cinders. He explained that he had been splashed by a car. As usual, he refused to say where he had been...
...distance race DeForest nipped a second off his own record of 2:15 flat made last year. His more modest effort in the 100 was enough to equal his own previous best, and the previous college record with 52.7. A little less than seven seconds was shaved from the 1934 record in the 200 yard breast stroke when the stop-watch showed 2:27.8 as the versatile waterman hit the wall...
Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...