Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That figure," noted an Italian paper tartly last week, "does not include members of the third sex.") Drawn by the abundance of femininity, Italian males drift from one pretty visitor to another, always careful to move on before it comes time to pay the bill. "These men flap around like butterflies," lamented a French girl. "In France we are delicate and have romance...
...last week, little more than a month since the announcement, more than 10,000 pilgrims had viewed the untidy nest of sticks among the branches. Its occupants: a family of ospreys (fish hawks) with three fledglings-the first to be hatched in Britain since 1916. When the young birds flap off on their own in a week or two, they will mark a signal victory of British bird lovers over their ancient enemies, British egg collectors...
GREAT BRITAIN The Great Lloyd Flap...
...that the august Times of London-by blowing up run-of-the-mill speculation-had goofed, and the lesson of it was that the once mighty Thunderer is really now, as so many Fleet Streeters call it, old Aunty of Printing House Square. The further consequence of the flap was that plodding Selwyn Lloyd could now consider himself more secure...
...would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip. In the end Eddie had to make the hard old choice between position and principle, between making a living and making a life. And so at last the rabbit got out of the trap...