Word: flapped
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...knees splayed, the soles of her feet touching. "Hold on to your butterfly wings," Jodi Komitor instructs her Saturday-morning class of mothers and toddlers in New York City. Camille clutches her toes and prepares for flight. Komitor continues: "Lean back, open your butterfly wings and whee!" Her students flap their legs in the fantastical studio, where paper flowers seem to grow out of the bubblegum-pink ceiling. "I'm flying to a flower," reports Camille. "A pink...
...Shun the press Your phone will be ringing. The reporters will seem friendly. They are not--and besides, the Senators want first crack at you. So don't flap your gums to Tim Russert. Remember the Kennebunkport ethic of not leaking and not bragging...
...crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader is simply a product of democracy and an independent judiciary. The most striking thing about...
...other counties with punch ballots, a disproportionate number had no votes for President. In Broward alone, which gave Gore 68% of its vote, there were 6,686 ballots that did not register a presidential vote. In Pinellas, election authorities figured out this problem and began removing the little hanging flap from the punch cards, although they didn't catch all the faulty ballots before the full recount was completed. Nonetheless, Gore picked up 417 votes there, and now it became important for Democrats to press for a hand count...
...other counties with punch ballots, a disproportionate number had nobody voting for President. In Broward alone, which gave Gore 68% of its vote, there were 6,686 ballots that did not register a presidential vote. In Pinellas, election authorities figured out this problem and began removing the little hanging flap from the punch cards, although they didn't catch all the faulty ballots before the full recount was completed. Nonetheless, Gore picked up 417 votes there, and now it became important for Democrats to press for a hand count...