Word: flitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Gordon Gray had been in the Army only a week when he had a gripe. Bedbugs, he complained to the supply sergeant at Fort Bragg, were making his life miserable. The sergeant met the problem with soldierly calm, promptly issued Private Gray a special weapon: one Flit gun, loaded. That was Gordon Gray's first lesson in military supply. He went on learning, first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that...
...know how to live. To Greeks he typifies the vast and somewhat incomprehensible power of the U.S. A few days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...
Athens was already nervous because of a renewed flurry of Communist sabotage. Some unguarded telephone stations had been blown up, and Communist pamphlets were attacking the new government, U.S. aid, and-most venomously-General Van Fleet, who was referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led a regiment across the Normandy beaches in 1944 and rose to be a division commander in four months, was not alarmed by the threat on his life, but the Athenian authorities were. How had the note-bearer escaped the vigilance of two detectives constantly on guard in the general...
...first part of each class consists of watching the movies, which present reading material from the pages of textbooks in the form of isolated word groups. The word groups flit across the person at a steadily increasing pace as the course progresses. After the film, students answer questions about the reading material they have just soon. In part two of the class they read passages from an ordinary book within a certain time limit and then again answer questions about what they have read. The third part of the course is devoted to teaching studying skills: skimming, anticipating, and notemaking...
...Russell himself described it to delighted audiences, the Longs had the judge changing and shifting "like a mosquito dodging through a barrage of Flit." Russell, the gamblers' choice, was cocky and confident...