Word: flutteres
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...abstract picture, it was almost good enough to flutter the dovecots on Manhattan's arty 57th Street. It won Baltimore Photographer Aubrey Bodine first prize in a Camera magazine contest. Turned on its right side, it proved to be nothing more than a sunlight& -shadow shot of a row of Baltimore's white marble stoops...
...radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
Anything can happen in a horse race-and Derby favorites have flopped 50% of the time. Tipsters last week were full of white hopes and dark horses. Other doting owners (some 18 in all) would not pay the $1,000 entry fee just to see their colors flutter on Derby Day. The Downs was alive with regional prides: Marine Victory, the Maryland horse; Pellicle, Kentucky's own; and a big Texas-born chestnut named Assault, which had won Jamaica's Wood Memorial Stakes-a proving ground for five Derby winners-in wagon-horse time. Assault is known...
...Then something broke the peace; like wind it was, the flutter of rising wind...
...delights in the princely processions staged by his followers when he tours the Moslem cities of northern India. His buglers herald his arrival at railway stations. Bands play God Save the King because "that's the only tune they know." Victory arches go up, rose petals flutter down from the rooftops, richly bedizened elephants, camels, mounted guards of honor accompany the Hollywood float in which Jinnah rides. Today Jinnah, and not the hated Hindu Gandhi, is prima donna on India's stage...