Word: flickeringly
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Fulbright charged that the U.S. was demanding "unconditional surrender" from Hanoi. The merest flicker of irritation showed on Rusk's round face...
...rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where he had taken cover, Owen saw a flicker in the dense jungle opposite. "Then it moved again," he recalls. "I fired six shots. No more movement...
...Fast Flicker. Backed by the FAA, Dr. Hauty and Dr. Thomas Adams began with four volunteers, all male FAA employees aged 30 to 55, all scientists. For a week they tested the subjects in Oklahoma City to determine base lines for pulse, blood pressure, breathing rate, urinalysis, flicker-fusion time (how fast a light can flicker before it appears to merge into a steady beam), perspiration from the palms (an index of emotional tension), and rectal temperature every two hours round the clock...
...phenomenon of nature is too small to escape the curiosity of modern science, not even the twinkle of distant little stars. Astronomers call it scintillation. But putting a name to the faint flicker has hardly served to explain...
...sponge rubber. Around him are ashtrays half-filled with cigarettes left by the daytime rock 'n' roll D.J.s. Staring at him is the control panel held together with electrical tape. On the scarred horseshoe table sits a six-line beige telephone, equipped with six lights that will flicker when the telephone calls come...