Word: fluttered
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...surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said to fly. If the fish hold their outspread fins stiffly, they may be said simply to glide...
Last week Janitor Harris shyly acknowledged the uses of publicity. Having secured his degree with the help of a flutter of checks from alumni and sympathetic newspaper readers, he announced his appointment as head of the chemistry department at Wilberforce (Negro) University at Wilberforce, Ohio...
...Robinson grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...
...situations crop up in the fundraising business. Once Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams when they happened to print part of the college song. The Mountains, in a solicitation letter. That drew a nice flutter of checks. Horace Dutton Taft wanted to raise $2,000,000 for Taft School but it was pointed out to him that the school was his private property. Headmaster Taft generously deeded the school to his trustees and Tamblyn went ahead with the drive...
...flutter with the chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert...