Word: flapping
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...woodwind instruments, came out from Agamemnon's palace doors carrying a pan of incense to lay on the altar where it might now be lighted with some hope that it would smoke. His foot slipped on the rain-greased altar step and went right through the marble, a canvas flap of which went on fluttering in the breeze until Intermission. His act had great success, but was not repeated...
...hottest fashion item of the moment at Sak's Fifth Avenue (next to Elsie's) is a smart gray and white striped seersucker dinner jacket. As tradition dictates, it has one button natural shoulders, flap pockets and shawl collar...
...glorious instrument he has heard in his inner ear all his life. Szell still works tirelessly, training young conductors, learning new scores. His pedagoguery is perfectly undiminished: he gives golf lessons to golfers who play better, teaches tailors how to cut his tails so that the coat will not flap while he conducts: tight armholes, ballooning sleeves...
Surprised? When the questions began, Kennedy was asked about the flap over Adlai Stevenson's position in the Cuban crisis decisions. The President pleasantly dodged: "I would not attempt to describe, verify, or in any way discuss the position that any member of the National Security Council has taken." Pushed for comment on the responsibility of the Saturday Evening Post article that claimed Stevenson wanted "a Munich," the President scattered more peace on earth: "I would not attempt to characterize writers of this article or any other." Only once did Kennedy show any sign of irritation. When pressed...
...Kennedy wrote Stevenson a "Dear Adlai" letter that, without undercutting Bartlett and Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy is to a newspaper...