Word: flickingly
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...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...
When the Council finally convened, President Bramuglia put the Little Six compromise proposal to a vote. Arc lights blazed and a hundred cameras clicked as Vishinsky's hand, pausing on its way to flick an invisible speck of dust from its owner's black suit, sharply stabbed the air. "We cannot accept . . ." said Vishinsky. It was Russia's 28th veto. Said the U.S.'s Philip Jessup: "In the judgment of the world . . . if the Berlin question is not settled . . . the responsibility of failure will rest squarely and unavoidably on the government of the U.S.S.R...
...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...
...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...
...become law anyway not later than December 1949. Until then, all Acts of Parliament would continue to carry the traditional preamble: "Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons . . ." But afterward, a final flick of the Parliament Bill provided, even the words "the Lords" would disappear from the preambles...