Word: fluttering
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...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...
...bubble canopy over your pressurized cockpit. "When your cover goes off you are subjected to what the doctors call 'explosive decompression' . . . the gas and air in your lungs and belly and muscles must escape and expand. They go out of you in a great whoosh; your lips flutter . . . and your body feels as if it were 'getting a great thrust from all directions...
Skirts may never appear on Harvard cheerleaders, but Scotch kilts will flutter in the ranks of the University Band this afternoon when the "best in the business" marches onto Soldiers Field to start the grid season with an "oompah...