Word: flickerer
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...timers in Huntsville, Texas, like to tell tales of public hangings and lynchings at the turn of the century and to reminisce about how, on execution nights at The Walls state prison, the lights would often flicker and dim across town, a signal that the electric chair on the hill was doing its work yet again. Whether these stories are apocryphal or not, the sentiment in favor of the death penalty remains overwhelming in Huntsville, even though many townspeople are uncomfortable with their community's distinction as the execution capital of the U.S. Last year the state of Texas...
...there are always athletes eager for this indentured servitude. In the poignant three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...
...trap the unlucky first year for 30 minutes, is most comparable to quicksand, or perhaps the traffic in the Callahan tunnel. Going in it may not seem so bad; but after 30 minutes in a warm, noisy knot o people the room begins to spin and the lights flicker...
...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...