Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shriver had cause for insomnia-as one event swiftly proved. Hardly had the Peace Corps put its feet on foreign ground than there was a major flap: a corps girl named Margery Michelmore, stationed in Nigeria, dropped a home-addressed postcard that seemed critical of life in that shoeless African nation; it was picked up, put in anti-American channels, and screechingly publicized.*Shriver is convinced that the subsequent success of the Peace Corps has been such that there will be no repetition of that incident. "It won't happen again -not like that," he says...
...Hello," says the parrot, proving he is no bit-player. A civil servant arrives. "Don't flap, sir," he says, "I bring you a message from General de Gaulle. He wants to see you stuffed." One night last week, the parrot took off in a swooping flight and alighted on the railing of a box. An actor climbed over the footlights, held out his arm, and Macawmillan hopped aboard. Wild applause. "You're very popular with the House, as you know, sir," said the actor, exiting. But alas, in the third act the parrot is roasted and eaten...
Palate or Patrie? But world influence could wait, decided De Gaulle, and he said non as only he can. He dispatched a sort of force de flap - the fast, 2,750-ton destroyer escort Tartu-to watch over the fishing boats. An "act of hostility." cried Brazilian Foreign Minister Hermes Lima. "The attitude of France is inadmissible, and our government will not retreat. The lobster will not be caught...
...woodwind instruments, came out from Agamemnon's palace doors carrying a pan of incense to lay on the altar where it might now be lighted with some hope that it would smoke. His foot slipped on the rain-greased altar step and went right through the marble, a canvas flap of which went on fluttering in the breeze until Intermission. His act had great success, but was not repeated...
...hottest fashion item of the moment at Sak's Fifth Avenue (next to Elsie's) is a smart gray and white striped seersucker dinner jacket. As tradition dictates, it has one button natural shoulders, flap pockets and shawl collar...