Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flick of Death. The night was cloudless but hazy. The four main French strong points were blacked out except for shielded lights in a special pattern to guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells...
...Challenge. That did it. With a flick of his dress gloves, France's first soldier was challenging the authority and assaulting the integrity of France's civilian leaders. The Cabinet could not treat the challenge lightly. Marshal Juin is France's military hero, an idol of its officer corps...
What the democratic West had failed to achieve in all of four years' diplomacy -a sovereign, rearmed West Germany-the Soviet Union ordained in East Germany with a flick of its whip. Last week the Kremlin announced that the Soviet occupation of its East German satellite is at an end, that the puppet "People's Republic" will now be "a sovereign state . .. free to decide, at its own discretion, its own internal and external affairs...
Guess that's enough for you to start with. Think we had some pretty funny stuff in February, no matter what they say. I, for one, am through worrying. Hear there's a dance or flick tonight at the Great Hall and I guess I might as well wander on over...
When the witnesses were finished, so was Serag el Din. "Show your mercy toward the homeland by proving cruel to him," demanded the prosecutor in his summation. At week's end Serag el Din stood up and did not flick an eyelash as the court pronounced its verdict: 15 years in prison...