Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the flap over whether Rocky would be a political drag for Ford next year upset the Vice President very long. As a result and after a cozy helicopter flight with the President, Rockefeller and Ford may be closer than ever. Ford and his new campaign manager, Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Secretary of the Army and conservative Georgia Congressman, had wanted to try to disarm the militant right-wingers of the G.O.P., who still dislike Rocky. But Callaway's quite correct assessments that the Vice President's "liberalism" and age would be political problems in 1976 caused...
...have a smart lawyer.") The plot itself is only quaintly wacky. A series of mishaps culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines is not in slapstick situations but in soliloquies and banter duets. He and Sonia (Diane Keaton), an intellectual Russian nymph, often find themselves grappling with...
...commission found that top CIA officials knew that the mail openings were illegal. For example, an internal CIA memorandum warned in 1962 that "a flap would put us out of business immediately and give rise to grave charges of criminal misuse of the mail by Government agencies." Similarly the commission learned that during one of the San Francisco operations, CIA representatives abstracted and "concealed selected pieces of mail in an equipment case or a handbag," apparently without the knowledge of a postal official who was present. Later CIA officials analyzed the contents of the purloined letters, resealed the envelopes...
...bones may also tell something about how pterosaurs flew. Experts have long doubted that the great creatures could flap their wings hard enough to get off the ground. They speculated that the flying reptiles climbed cliffs or mountains and soared off them like gliders. Presumably, Lawson's considerably larger pterosaurs would have found it even harder to get airborne. Yet their remains were found in an area that is -and probably was, during the age of dinosaurs-at least 20 or 30 miles from any mountains. Unless the bones were washed downstream from their original resting place, their locale...
...follow-up two days later caused more of a flap: a thunderous attack on a $342,000 contract by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the sex lives of Michigan State College students, mostly to find out why some fail to use birth control devices. Charging a "serious mismanagement of taxpayers' funds," Proxmire pointed out that the contract was awarded noncompetitively last fall to a former official of the institute for nearly $100,000 more than had been requested. For overkill, the Senator tossed in the argument that the students' privacy might...