Word: flaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weary of being treated like a mindless "cash register" to be rung up when problems arise but not consulted or taken seriously by Washington. Miyazawa wanted to make that the focus of his talks with Bush during his recent visit, but the subject was mostly drowned out by the flap over trade...
Israel's Settlements Flap...
CINEMA A steamy new Michael Douglas movie causes a ratings flap...
...face, with large eyes and a line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like Wee Pals and Luther...
...commercials, shown only in Washington at a cost of about $100,000, have reaped millions of dollars' worth of free publicity through network television and print-media reproductions that have accompanied news stories about the flap. That probably was the intent all along...