Word: flappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes are apparently in a worse flap over this than the Finns, and view the whole thing as a Swedish problem. The Finns derive a certain sour satisfaction from this. A Finnish Liberal rolled his eyes heavenward and said: "Oh, the poor Swedes! I don't know how they'll be able to bear this...
...Staccato Flaps. When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come...
...Democratic Cincinnati Enquirer got fed up with the flap-jawed way some of its columnists were talking. In an editorial, it warned its readers that Westbrook Pegler and Walter Winchell often don't know what they're talking about...
...Thursday, wheat and corn again tumbled the limit and securities slumped some more. Then Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, whose boss has been sounding off about high prices, did what seemed to be his flap-jawed best to keep them up. He announced that the Government might boost its export buying by an additional 50 million bushels of wheat...
...Hobble skirts, hoop skirts, skirts that flap around the ankles...