Word: flickeringly
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...drove the 49ers to the 13 only to miss an unattended receiver in the end zone. "It kind of shook me up a bit," he would say later, "because there it was-he was open. How many times is it going to be there for you?" Even that flicker of concern did not show, not to the crowd, not to his teammates. Montana sent Lenvil Elliott around left end to the six. Time out. Third and three, with 58 sec. on the clock...
...have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be resourceful and fully dimensional." And what does fully dimensional mean? "There is basic, rock-solid, block-and-tackle football. Then there is crazy, circus-play, flea-flicker football. We fit somewhere in between...
...should have been a silent movie. Facts and faces flicker through E.L. Doctorow's novel with the speed and power of jerky images from a newsreel of the American soul circa 1910. Archetypes are intercut with tintypes; a panorama of mass or class dissolves into a closeup of an agitated bourgeois mind; fable is superimposed on history. And they all run like hell to the D.W. Griffith finish line. Long shot: Harry Houdini performs thrilling escapes, restaging his own birth trauma for a country just then emerging from isolationism into imperialism. Closeup: Emma Goldman, anarchist spellbinder, woos Evelyn Nesbit...
...passing of Ron Cuccia and the razzle-dazzle entries in the Harvard playbook to move the ball, Restic has discovered a secret weapon in his potent running attack. The success of Callinan, Jim Acheson, Jimmy Garvey and others takes the pressure off Cuccia, making the occasional pass or flea flicker more effective. In fact, the offense put 28 points on the board in the first half Saturday without Cuccia completing a pass...
...staff keep a close eye on the guards, searching for some who have been imported from the south because they understand Gaelic. Prisoners try to trick guards who are suspect, making a shocking remark to them in Gaelic about killing their children. If they see as much as a flicker of response, they know. Ordinarily, prisoners never speak to the guards directly or even look at them. It is part of the endless psychological...