Word: flit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where would you go? Harvard Square, of course! With branches of at least five major banks right here, robbers have a virtual smorgasbord. Armored cars cruise through Massachusetts Avenue at all hours, ripe for the picking. Crowds swarm in and out of buildings, automatic teller machines abound, payroll packets flit to and fro--it's a robber's paradise...
...chaotic energy of much of Taylor's music is periodically interrupted by periods of intense calm, but even the calmer moments require concentration to grasp the tantalizing hints of romantic melodies that flit from underneath his fingertips...
...would become Satan had many names in heaven. Most of Western tradition identifies him as Lucifer, the Morning Star, the most brilliant of all the denizens of the empyrean. He is Sammael, according to the rabbinical literature of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures. And it was pride that...
...they still look overwhelmed; their eyes flit over everything in our tiny box of a room. There is an awkward silence, and then someone invariably says, "Does...does the Lego phone really work...