Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights flicker out on another year of sweat, they are threatening to come up at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where the Cubs illuminated last summer with a natural glow. By winning the National League's East Division and taking two quick playoff games from the San Diego Padres, they did momentary damage to a 39-year tradition but promptly squared themselves by blowing three straight to the Padres. God is in heaven, the Cubs are on a losing streak, and all is right with the baseball world...
Despite two penalities, Quincy drove down to the Winthrop 10-yard line. A flea-flicker found McNamara in the end zone to give Quincy a six point lead that would last for the rest on the game...
...Incidentally, the only effective response to hearing the secretary's "Please hold for..." is to hang up without explanation. After two or three times, Mr. Godot himself will place the call, as he should have done at the start.) But the "please hold" ploy is a mere flicker in the annals of great and horrible waiting. Citizens of the Soviet Union would think it bourgeois decadence to complain about such a trifle. The Soviets have turned waiting into a way of life. The numb wait is their negotiating style: a heavy, frozen, wordless impassivity designed to madden and exhaust...
...White House with six stiff Scotches in him. The so-called premenstrual syndrome (depression, anger, in some rare cases, violence, around the time of menstruation) has been used successfully as a defense in a couple of murder trials in England, and that reawakened a flicker or two of what is, in fact, a bigoted canard...
...that the Soviets have been terribly helpful in promoting a thaw. The flicker of conciliation that flashed when Chernenko first took power has long since been extinguished. The Soviet leader's replies to two letters from Reagan seeking specific responses on various issues consisted of "puzzling vagaries," according to a State Department official privy to the correspondence. A third letter, carried by retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate...