Word: flicker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eight states and parts of Canada, on the evening of Nov. 9, 1965, lights started to flicker and fade. The Big Blackout had begun. Before the Northeast groped its way back to normalcy, more than 4,000,000 man-hours of productivity were lost. The total is incomplete; it cannot be fully tabulated until Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? ends its run. Figure 1½ wasted man-hours per viewing...
Less than Swiftian (though not without an occasional flicker of appeal) are Shapiro's modest proposals, which include raising the minimum age for drivers' licenses to at least 30, denying foreign travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
Also: Henry M. Fields: Wayne M. Flicker; Frederick J. Fox; Robert Freedman; Kenneth B. Krisof; Peter J. Gabel; Harold N. Gabow; Daniel S. Gilbarg; Joseph W. Glannon; J. Stephen Golden; Richard H. Gordon; Laurence H. Green; Jeffrey C. Hamm; Richard P. Harmel, Jr.; Philip Harrison; Robert C. Hart; Charles S. Henry; Robert S. Hoffman; Richard S. Hopkins...
...crimbflitteringish is arefloatsis ing-fallall! mil, shy milbrightlions my (hurl flicker handful in) dodging are shybrigHteyes...