Word: flapped
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When George W. Bush met with the Northwestern women's lacrosse team, their flip-flops caused a flap. Must shoes be conservative in the White House? Or is this Administration more footloose and fancy free? --By Logan Orlando...
...kind of work gave Tuttle the insight crucial to his later career: that meaning could be achieved with the bare minimum of means. It paved the way for later pieces like New Mexico, New York #14, in which a looping form is superimposed on an irregular rectangle with a flap that resembles an envelope. In a sense, it is an envelope--what looks at first like a minimalist abstraction is also a yearning road picture, a conflation of the circuit Tuttle travels between his homes in New York and New Mexico and the letters he writes to keep in touch...
...timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that the U.S. plans to abrogate the only fully ratified arms treaty between the superpowers. Sure enough, the Soviets' Georgi Arbatov promptly stated that the letter proved Reagan was "not serious" about the summit. The flap soon subsided, however, and its eventual role at the summit was minimal...
DeLong and other friends of Summers speculate that the University president might be persuaded to leave Cambridge behind if he were offered the Fed chairmanship. But the ironic consequence of this year’s flap over Summers’ leadership is that—by dashing his own Fed prospects—Summers might have lengthened his tenure at Harvard...
...softening Harvard’s stance on it and I feel like the answer I got was a characteristically dismissive and official kind of thing,” LaFlamme said, referring to a study break question and answer session in Mather House. “But the flap about his comments at the conference in January has made Summers and his emissaries more receptive to dialogue and brought more legitimate conversations then in the beginning of this administration...