Word: flutterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bishop Le Huu Tu is an interesting personality; for 17 of his 54 years he was a Trappist monk. He has black eyebrows and protruding teeth. When he smiles, revealing a dazzling expanse of teeth and pink gums, and his long, bony hands flutter sensitively, he suddenly becomes transfigured into a man of charm and considerable magnetism. In 1945, before his rebellion, Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh named Bishop Tu "Supreme Counselor." "Being Supreme Counselor to Ho Chi Minh," explains Tu suavely, "was only an expedient. I realized from the first that he was Communist, but I used to tell...
...Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...launch certain jet fighters from the deck of a pitching carrier. The computer proved that they were much too likely to go in the drink. It worked out the "hydrodynamic" behavior of unbuilt submarines. It predicted the speed at which the wings of new aircraft would begin to flutter dangerously...