Word: fleck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduating in 1968, North skipped summer leave and cruised down to Basic School at Quantico, Va., in his new, fleck-metal green sports car, a Shelby Cobra. North stood out right away, recalls Fellow Officer Scott Matthews. "He was hot, extremely hot . . . He was a very action-oriented individual, eager to get on with it." While at Quantico, North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis...
...melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic fallacy. But in Lopez's hands its death is its own and no one else's; and its minutely observant reconstruction under the brush, each nuance of its shrunken flesh reconstituted by a mark, fleck or scribble of paint that carries its wiry vitality as a sign, gives the inspection of this still and single object the power of narrative...
Henry (Andrew Bakalar), a playwright, leaves his actress-wife Charlotte (Ellen Harvey) for Annie (Beth Colt), another actress, who leaves her actor-husband Max (Tim Fleck) to marry Henry. The irony for the audience is that we've already seen this happen in one of Henry's plays...
...fleck of inconvenience, maybe, or a passing unpleasantness. But an authentic disaster, as any of the specialists gathered in Indianapolis last month would tell you, entails grave injuries and, always, at least the possibility of wholesale death. The 600 men and women -- fire fighters and police, civil-defense officials, county sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular...
They did it by first building their business into three popular Phoenix-area restaurants called Garcia's and then selling out to Thomas Fleck, a founder of the California-based Cork 'N Cleaver chain, for $3 million in cash and notes in 1979. Fleck went public with Garcia's stock last year and has opened 14 new dining spots from San Diego to Des Moines since he bought the rights to the name. Garcia, 56, retired as chairman a year ago, but his wife, 53, still visits some kitchens and samples sauces...