Word: flutterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would goad Congress into cutting off funds for manned space flight. TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm subsequently learned that the troublesome shield was new and untried, and had repeatedly caused problems during its development. Parts had failed at least four different tests. The shield was apparently plagued by an extreme flutter when subjected to the stresses of launch. Though aware of the shield's shortcomings, NASA decided to use it anyway, mainly to save a few million dollars in additional development costs. Admits Christopher Kraft Jr., director of Houston's Johnson Space Center: "We had a great battle whether...
Umpire Julie Grosse, best known for taking frequent coffee breaks from her posh Grays Hall office, tried to stifle the Crime rally with shady rulings, but the presence of so many handsome Crimson editors made her flutter with excitement...
...children, the dying Edwina Renshaw commands an audience of 47 descendants at her slow demise. "Bold, touchy, trifling, headstrong, wild" hemen, the Renshaw boys constitute a John Wayne collective. Their only allegiances are to the South, Texas and the Renshaws, in that ascending order. The Renshaw women flutter in the male-chauvinist background, near-hysterical victims of Big Mommy's preference for boys...
Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
...know why (Perhaps because of all the bother of late in this column over The King of Hearts?), but last night I went out and bought the 200,001nth ticket to the show and thought it was great fun. Why such a flutter of hearts all over town...