Word: fluttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stern congressional warning, a new flutter from Andropov...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
...photo album for the first year alone threatens to be a three-volume work, but the kid could probably cause shutter flutter no matter who his parents were. At Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince...
After the shelling ended, residents of West Beirut again displayed their resilience, thronging the streets to perform their shopping rounds. Occasionally, the supersonic scream of an Israeli jet on a mock bombing run caused a momentary flutter of panic. Most people ignored the threat of renewed fighting, taking advantage of the lull to stock up on supplies from East Beirut...
...novelist's estate. Says Managing Director Michael Sissons: "We had called up the Waugh files, going back to shortly after his death [1966] to look for evidence, while trying to renegotiate some of the paperback royalty rates." Suddenly the familiar rustle of contracts became the startling flutter of serendipity. "Out of the 1970 file," says Sissons, "dropped a typescript of Chapter I of Charles Ryder's Schooldays...