Word: fluttered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sparrows and pigeons that live in a thousand Gothic niches about Britain's Houses of Parliament swarmed up to their nests and then out again in frightened flutter. Some of the pigeons took refuge off in Trafalgar Square, which was singularly empty that afternoon. All of London seemed to have converged upon the Westminister bridgeheads to watch what some old birds eyed knowingly- one of those loud-droning big creatures with stiff wings that used to fly over Big Ben so often ten years ago. They saw this creature circle Parliament twice, then drive the greedy gulls...
Venizelos. Observers recalled that Eleutherios Venizelos has caused scarcely a flutter in Greece since he was last Premier for a few days (TIME, Jan. 21, 1924) under the regency which preceded the Hellenic Republic, which has now given way to the dictature of General Pangalos. (TIME...
...Majesty's Privy Purse, the Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod, the First Lady of the Bedchamber and many another took their places. As the King summoned the members of the House of Commons to enter the House of Lords and hear the Royal Speech, there was a flutter among Peers robed in scarlet, gold and ermine; among Peeresses clad in mourning, which set off their tiaras and coronets to advantage; among prelates in gold and black; among judges whose heads were swathed in wigs large as beehives...
...sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation of any kind." "There were no visible emanations nor was a photographic plate fogged when placed in front of the pointers." Yet for four months various Portland physicians have posed patients before the machine; have noticed blood pressure, in some cases flutter towards normal; have wondered cautiously. Other physicians have studied their pressure charts; have noted that after the first change further variation was negligible; have imputed changes to the resting posture of the patient before the apparatus and to his distraction from his ailments...
President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers caused a flutter by announcing: "Whenever the representatives of the operators are willing to meet the representatives of the miners in amicable negotiations to work out a contract for from one to five years' continuous operation of the mines, the miners stand now, and have been, prepared to meet them...