Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streit's counterpart in England, Agar will boost world federalism in Britain, report British viewpoints for Freedom & Union. He will work in his flat off Berkeley Square "because it's easier for me to be quiet there," will spend much of 1947 on a book which will tell "how our government developed the way it has." After that, it will be Freedom & Union full time...
...view in a Manhattan gallery. The closest thing to nature in his blast pictures was an occasional circle (representing portholes) which he included for the sake of contrast "as you would show the whiteness of a wall by putting a thumbprint on it." His Test Able was a pat, flat imitation of chaos...
...fantasies are noisily colorful, and there are strong realistic moments, as when Chris suddenly goes to pieces. Nor is there anything particularly false in what happens. There is just nothing freshly, uniquely true. Even so, Christopher Blake might be pretty effective theater if the writing were not often so flat, or the general effect so top-heavy...
T.W.A. had stretched its resources thin expanding into the glamorous field of overseas air transportation. But it would have skinned by without much trouble if the 25-day pilots' strike had not knocked it flat. By last week, T.W.A.'s financial position was worrisome enough to fill the air with more rumors than Constellations...
...bought a Rolls-Royce, a Chevrolet, a yacht, rented a flat in London, built himself a luxurious ?22,000 house in Grantham. He threw lavish parties. And when he stood for Parliament as a champion of the little people, the grateful little people of Grantham elected him, twice...