Word: wisp
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...order to prove this point, I recently journeyed to the North Pole to conduct an exclusive interview with the one and only real Santa Claus. Upon arriving in the arctic wasteland, I quickly spotted a candy-striped house with a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney. Trudging toward it through the ice and snow, I heard a chorus of high-pitched angry voices. As I approached the source of this racket, I discerned a circle of tiny persons, marching determinedly while chanting, "Elfin power, elfin power!" I crossed the picket line and was assailed with snowballs...
...damage civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution, destroy the delicate balance of world peace and turn back the clock for social and economic justice. We are not willing to risk the gains of the last 50 years--and the values of peace, equality and justice--for a fleeting, fanciful wisp of a party and candidate that might never be heard from after November...
...damage civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution. destroy the delicate balance of world peace and turn back the clock for social and economic justice. We are not willing to risk the gains of the last 50 years--and the values of peace, equality and justice--for a fleeting, fanciful wisp of a party and candidate that might never again be heard from after November...
...enough to justify all that roaming around that so many did: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a wisp of grey smoke with the whole horizon behind radiant with pink light, fading gently into a grey pastel sky. Nothing I have seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting...
...wisp in Montreal, only 5 ft. even and 86 lbs., one of those slim, prepubescent marvels who have revolutionized the sport. As she has matured, she has added three inches and 13 pounds; some coaches wondered if she had become too top-heavy to perform her limber routines. Indeed, Comaneci looked like a stranger in her new body. She finished a disappointing fourth in the all-around competition during the World Championships at Strasbourg in 1978, then missed much of that event last year due to a badly infected hand...