Word: flacking
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...driving in and out of. Some residents approach Cook to ask for help, or an application for a small grant. But many deliver cold, hard stares from a distance. And as safe as it is now, soldiers still wouldn't recommend a foreigner walk down the street without a flack jacket and a helmet...
...Punk corpus. The new magnetism they create with overly repetitious “Steam Machine” and “Brainwasher” makes this album an effort at redeeming themselves after their last subpar release, “Human After All.” For all the flack that “Human After All” got for being made in a skimpy two weeks, “Alive 2007” shows why we should still love Daft Punk—because they can create something like this out of something like that. And because...
...Temple of Zeus at Olympia, but the Colosseum in Rome, less noted for Olympic-style friendship than for gladiatorial butchery. What the hell, the officials of the Sydney Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games apparently reasoned; it's still the ancient world, right? Then it befell some luckless S.O.C.O.G. flack to claim it wasn't meant to be the Colosseum, just a colosseum. Nice try, kid. It was too late to make new medals...
Just how strongly Unger’s theories will affect his actions in government is unclear, though he has already taken flack for accepting the post in the first place, with some critics accusing him of compromising his principles...
...other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile, a faster line of patter and her foot in your door...