Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damage control succeeded in quelling the immediate ruckus. But as fast as the Kremlin spin controllers kill one rumor, another crops up. Lately, the persistence of these stories has provoked speculation, even among supporters, that perhaps there is a flicker of truth behind all the supposed disinformation...
...York City Board of Education, the young Goldstein, with his side curls and yarmulke, attended school at a yeshiva. His faith seemed to draw him apart from others into an otherworldly solitude. If there was a tongue of flame in his heart, so much as a flicker of anything like bloodlust or fanaticism, no one noticed it then...
...police forced him to get out of his car. Now he can see the fire heading for his house, and not a fire fighter in sight. "It's gonna go," he mutters. His eyes are on the ground, dejected, but his hair dances in the fierce wind, and shadows flicker across his face. Suddenly he spies the cat -- a black beauty named, of all things, Santa Ana Winds -- and stuffs her in a small cage. The animal is frightened, moaning. Miller is not much better. He begins to cry. "I don't know what to do now," he says...
There is still a chance that what Griest found was some bizarre kind of variable star, but the fact that the French saw the same flicker in an entirely different type of star argues against that possibility. The next step is to comb through another million observations already stored in the computer. If nothing more shows up, it means MACHOs alone can't account for all the dark matter. Attention would then shift to the hunt for undiscovered subatomic particles. But if several more MACHOs -- Griest won't say exactly how many -- pop out of the computer, then they could...
...responsible" European nations, led by Britain and France, never gave the besieged Bosnian Muslims much reason to hope. But the Americans did. During the 1992 campaign, Governor Bill Clinton called for lifting the arms embargo against the Bosnians and air strikes against the Serbs. For the Bosnians, a flicker of hope appeared...