Word: flickerings
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...night, while star shells, flares, bomb flashes flicker across the Guam sky, faint barks can be heard from distant outposts. The dogs are standing watch with sentries, ready to give warning if the Japs try to work into the Marines' lines...
...said what all were waiting to hear: "In view of all these factors, I think we had better go ahead." The die was cast. The meeting had taken just half an hour. With one characteristically casual sentence General Eisenhower loosed the fateful lightning that will stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been ordered, then canceled again almost immediately, when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse. That, even the calm Tedder admitted...
Millions of fervid Roosevelt supporters have assumed and insisted that President Roosevelt is a genuine But the President made nis declaration of "nationalism" with hardly a flicker of a cigaret ash. Having plumped for 100% "integrity," he went on smoothly and solemnly. The nations of the world, said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working...
Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
...Church. "Then," says Mr. Edwards, "one of those things happened." The little Episcopal mission of St. Andrew's near the Edwards home at suburban Scarsdale had never been big enough to rank as a parish. It had long dragged out a flickering life as a mission. In 1942 St. Andrew's threatened to flicker out for good. Mr. Edwards, then only a lay reader, decided that he had found his charge. He took over the pulpit at St. Andrew's Chapel...