Word: flitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italy's sensational consumer economy has soared to new heights-but Italian bankers and economists worry that it has risen on the wings of butterflies. "Butterflies" is the Italian nickname for cambiali, the instant-credit promissory notes that flit from one holder to an other through Italy's credit-happy economy. No one knows for sure the exact value of the cambiali now in circulation in Italy, but knowledgeable bankers estimate that their worth may equal the total value of Italy's currency. Cambiali have become so much a part of Italian life that Cinema Director Vittorio...
...tube of canvas came wriggling into view, propelled by somebody underneath. Chuckle, chuckle-it's the Potomac. The blue ice cream ended up in paper plates on a picnic table, making the point that Washington is a hell of a party town. Two men sprayed the place with Flit guns loaded with a foul-smelling mixture. The sex came a little later. A lively girl with dark doe eyes, dressed in a black oilcloth shift, set up an ironing board that had silver bells hanging from it and began to iron any number of medium-sized replicas...
...contrasted this with "moments of attention" which flit from one thing to another, which he cited as the basic type of Yoga...
...briskly "takes' her in 'and." Runs her up some baby clothes, starts her eating properly for two, goes to the clinic for a stack of diapers and a doll to practice on. But all too soon the idyl ends. The old hen comes home to roost, the flit flies the coop, the heroine is left to hatch a hopeless future...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...