Word: flatterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the troop can take, and , which it is now holding. That is, the sergeant morosely explains, the Huns' artillery can fan a fly's tail in mid-flight if it is so foolish as to venture up the road. Now and then a burst of gunfire, flatter and nearer than the noise of the S.P.s signals a sally of German heavy tanks from Sauzette. They sneak out, fire a few rounds at our lighter armored cavalry cars and tanks, then rush back to cover under bursts of our noisy but ineffective reply." Somewhere along that road, between...
...heavy, encumbering arms for light automatic weapons and grenades. Ahead of the troops, the destroyers dropped a preparatory barrage. The destroyers' guns were fired from their maximum elevation, lobbing shells on the beach. They caused greater destruction than would have been made by shells fired with the normal, flatter trajectory, which might have ricocheted. The Japs, in effect, used their destroyer batteries as land armies use howitzers...
...larger liberal arts fields of concentration, the science departments are meeting the restrictions of a purse 10% flatter since the recent budget cut by not refilling vacancies, increasing the size of sections and the number of men per tutor, and in some cases by decreasing the number of courses...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
When Burton sought the nomination last spring, the G. O. P. machine was set to roll him flatter than a pancake. But Burton, like Willkie at Philadelphia, stopped the professionals in their tracks. After his nomination, astute Harold Burton made peace. It took some making. As mayor of Cleveland during the city's relief crisis, he had cracked out right & left, had collided with such Party holy men as State Boss Ed Schorr and Governor John W. Bricker. When he was fighting them for the Senatorial nomination he had proclaimed: "If I am elected I will take an oath...