Word: fluttering
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...afternoon last week thundered an Army Jupiter-C rocket. Seven minutes later, the rocket popped a satellite into orbit. What was even more remarkable than this space-age achievement was the fact that the world accepted the news of a third U.S. orbiting moon with a great deal less flutter than that accorded the winners of Hollywood's Academy Awards (see CINEMA...
...cast of a witty London revue. They warble their uncertain, Oxford-accented way through a series of wandering digressions on the London bus system (A Transport of Delight), the morals of the clubman (Madeira, M'Dear?), the woes of the hi-fi fan ("What do you get? Flutter on your bottom"). They do their best work, Flanders howls, in a snug little house in "an amusing mews," where...
...playwright makes each the torturer of the other two, and yet they are absolutely dependent upon one another. The journalist must win the respect of the Lesbian because she is the only courageous person left to him and thus his "salvation." She desires the love of the flutter-brained coquette who being devotedly hetero-sexual, will not yield. This woman's vanity demands the Lesbian as a mirror because there are no mirrors in hell. The coquette, in turn, asks love of the journalist, who only wants to prove to himself that he is not a coward, yet he cannot...
...with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern." All his stories are grotesque, but caught in them, like the tremble of a bird in cupped hands, is the undeniable flutter of life...
...border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle, wrote out a proclamation declaring themselves San Marino's legal government. "This is a great historic hour," said the new government, as the blue-and-white flag of the republic was hoisted aloft to flutter atop a rusty boiler on the roof of their new capitol...