Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them along the way. After them came 400 wedding guests, including Music Hall Star Mistinguett and U.S. Vice Consul William Bates. Other celebrators: French army Senegalese, local fishermen, long-haired existentialists from Paris, two men carrying a twelve-foot clarinet, cagefuls of doves that had been let loose to flap overhead. Consumption of the 400 guests at the reception: 300 bottles of champagne, 100 bottles of apéritifs, 50 gallons of wine...
...book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials and information copies...
...Slides & Flaps. TV commercials started, timidly enough, with an announcer borrowed from radio reading a sales message into a microphone. Quickly gaining assurance, admen branched out with visual demonstrations, optical slides, flap cards - selling methods that are still used, particularly on daytime TV. Then came the filmmakers, bringing with them animated cartoons by Walt Disney alumni, products that marched, skipped and jumped, filmed dramas cast with professional actors whose job it was to sell soap, automobiles, hand lotions and floor coverings...
Beside the tent flap, the recording of pain went on. The officer in charge dragged heavily on a cigarette and squinted bloodshot eyes against the light...
...Noise from London. Mossadeq was not alone in having the jitters. Iranian newspapers were in a flap about an article in London's Economist which asserted that Britain was preparing for direct military action in Iran. The British embassy in Teheran denied the story. This week there were more rumors. Britain was making threatening noises: four thousand crack paratroopers were ordered to assembly areas near London to get ready for an undisclosed emergency assignment...