Word: flutterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college swimming coaches, hale and hardy Handy jumped into a pool to demonstrate his new "twintail" crawl. Instead of kicking his legs alternately and steadily, he gave them turns. While the left leg took three kicks to one arm stroke, the right leg dragged with only a slight relaxed flutter; then the left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger and got a new idea...
...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...
...With a flutter of wings, the pigeons swept up & out. The dignitaries on the platform cringed and shrank away like troops before a strafing attack. Torpid delegates broke into a roar of delight. One bird landed on the rostrum, where Chairman Sam Rayburn scooped it up and flung it roofward again. Two landed on a platform fan, stayed there with the breeze ruffling their tail feathers...
...author of this first novel is only 23, but his literary promise has already caused a flutter in Manhattan publishing circles. When Editor Cyril Connolly of England's highbrow Horizon visited the U.S. last year (TIME, Oct. 20), he noted with sad alarm...
...engineer who had reduced the flutter of airplane surfaces found a way to do the same for plow blades. A geologist worked out a method of handling ammonium nitrate crystals which helped the Spencer Chemical Co. of Pittsburg, Kans. switch from wartime explosives to peacetime fertilizers. Midwest developed a bacteriological germicide, a new kind of steak sauce, a mud hardener for barnyards, and a revolutionary way to mill wheat by exploding grains with compressed...