Word: flickeringly
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...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...
...title of "This Woman Is Mine" fool you. It isn't the passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point...
However the U.S. looked to the Ambassador's aristocratic eyes, no flicker of resentment showed in them. Antagonistic newspapermen who baited him found themselves answered gravely and at length, could not swear that he knew he was being baited...
...images did flicker through Trotsky's injured brain last week, some of them must have been of those great days when War Commissar Leon Trotsky whipped the demoralized rabble of the crushed Imperial Army into a new Red Army, drove the Whites and their allies out of Russia; the proclaiming of the Third International when he hoped that world revolution was at hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin...
...blue glare of immense spotlights, to the roar of 15,000 throats, the rousing toot-&-boom of brass bands, Republican doctors worked feverishly over the moribund GOP in Cleveland, June 1936. The patient stirred briefly, collapsed in November. Dreary days followed for the Republican Party. The little flicker of life wavered, almost went out. Yet up-&-down the land plodded one yea-saying, stubborn prophet, preaching Principles, an old-fashioned sermon that was drowned out in the pounding, recurrent crescendos of New Deal swing music...