Word: flickerer
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...That flicker of a grin, so often at odds with the import of his words, had disappeared. That Southern lilt, so often muffling the ends of sentences, was almost gone. As President Carter appeared on prime-time television last week to proclaim and explain the long-awaited Stage II of his campaign to slow the inflation that has reached an annual rate of 10%, his manner and delivery befitted the solemnity of his subject. Seated at his Oval Office desk and reading from a prompter, the President vowed to try "to arouse our nation to join me" in the long...
...that is why this living memorial is so appropriate," Kennedy said in a speech which brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience. His voice cracking with emotion, Kennedy concluded, "Now at last Jack has come back to Harvard. The dream still lives. The flame may flicker but it will never...
...like I was wearing my Sunday suit." But, "little by little, I began to understand that it was necessary only to be like I really was." Much of Gicquel's appeal seems to lie in a kind of Gallic avuncular gloom, and an ability to register an appropriate flicker of sorrow, anger, levity or weariness in reaction to whatever news he is reading-the same reactions that viewers presumably are having. As Gicquel puts it, "I try to consider myself the recipient of the news just as the public will be, and to re-create before the public...
...many kinds. There was the horror of the assassination, of course, and the memory of his own wounds. And, back in Washington again, back in the spotlight, he must have pondered once more why he had not become President, why he should be President. There was not a flicker of that in his public testimony. But just as sure as the day was Wednesday, it was inside. All that testimony about the assassination will not put to rest the questions, the theories about conspiracy within and without the Government. But that may not have been the important thing...
...moment though, I though it could be good times for us again. When Jon Garrity bagged a goal to bring the Beanpot back to Harvard Square there was a flicker of hope...