Word: fluttering
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...sacred moments had come...He tasted one bowl, he tasted the other. Not bad--there was some fish in it...He dug in. First he only drank the broth, drank and drank. As it went down filling his whole body with warmth, all his guts began to flutter inside him at their meeting with the stew. Goo--ood!" It is explicit that Ivan is locked into a fate from which he cannot return home. "No one ever left the camps alive." His day evokes more a feeling of melancholy than horror because the situation is so hopeless...
...died for no reason nor cause except your hatred. If I could come to you whole, And let you see me. Touch me, know me. Would you then weep for me, you silent patriots? Do you hear the mournful song of a distant bird, the soft and gentle flutter of her wounded wings? Or are you so made of stone and steel no dart of love could pierce the armor of your frozen hearts? Then go, go wave your pretty flags to marching muscles and leave me with those that love me. go preach your hate; but mark me well...
...hysteria over the word "ecology" has submerged most real issues. Ecology is an idea of balance and not a political issue. Politics never seem to transcend the scale of banner-waving. "Ecology" does not comfortably fit a banner. Banners that are waved too hard tend to flutter at last in tatters...
...flutter of fingers, a kiss-kiss of lips, a toss-up of locks-it was Tiny Tim in Yorkshire at the start of a five-week tour of England. But Tim's manner seemed so inappropriate to his matter (The Land of Hope and Glory, the superpatriotic hymn to Britain from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance) that onetime Coldstream Guardsman Jim Smith, 34, felt impelled to wrest the mike away. "This man was running down England," barked the unrepentant Guardsman. "I'm quitting," trilled the unrepentant singer, who thereupon flounced back to the States...
...summer borrowers have been waiting for evidence that a drop in interest rates would turn out to be the real thing rather than a temporary flutter. Last week they got a strong sign as the bond market passed a critical test. On a single day, New England Telephone and Telegraph and International Harvester simultaneously floated issues totaling $275 million, a financing load that in almost any week earlier this summer would have depressed bond prices and sent interest rates soaring again. Somewhat to the surprise of underwriters, nearly all of the bonds were sold promptly, and interest rates stayed down...