Word: flickerings
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...fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once did he show a flicker of his old insolence: "We used the wrong methods in the Government General [of Poland], but then who is perfect running a foreign country? Look at Germany today...
...sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...
...jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...
...Bitter 'Arf. Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout...
...Grumman home is a white-shingled, blue-shuttered, 17-room house in Plandome, L.I., overlooking Long Island Sound. There Roy Grumman lives with his wife, Rose Marion, and his four children: Marion, 22, whose Army captain husband is stationed in England; Florence, 20, called "Flicker"; Grace, 18; and David, 9, who is known as "Butch" by his own request...