Word: fluttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Korea is ready for the big party. Seoul is bedecked with flags and banners that flutter their welcome in a gentle summer breeze. Children are rehearsing spirited songs. The bands have been tuning up for months. Soon the guests from 161 countries will be arriving: 250,000 tourists, 14,000 journalists and, most important, 13,000 athletes and sports officials. A global television audience of more than 1 billion people will tune in as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad get under...
...real one, who views an Oxford education as "sending his only son into the everlasting hellfire." Oscar's financial salvation comes when a well-to-do classmate looking for company knocks on his door by accident and then remarks, "I say, Odd Bod, do you like a flutter?" Slowly, Oscar realizes that he is being invited to bet on horses at Epsom Downs. He would indeed like a flutter: "He knew that God would give him money at the races...
...ninth medal of her four- Olympiad career. Even Britons, whose team failed to win a single medal, could take pride in a new national achievement. Just 47 1/2 meters short of Matti Nykanen's mark in the 90-meter ski jump, "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards' last-place 71-meter flutter meant he had flown three meters farther than any other Englishman. Ever...
REMEMBER Our Gang? Once in a while, about every third episode, inspiration would strike Spanky, who could never contain his enthusiasm. "Let's put on a show!" he'd declare. And every one of those loveable Little Rascals would have a part in the production. Darla would flutter and swoon. Alfalfa would flutter and swoon and croon in the lead part. Froggy talked like a frog. Buckwheat made the backdrop. Everything would be just fine until those rich kids from across the block showed up. They'd mess around with the scenery. Maybe they'd push Porky down and make...
...Words flutter in his air like seabirds. Tern. There's a word. A noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...