Word: blinking
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...shutter opens, a whopping charge of electricity (2,000 volts) surges through the tube from a condenser, with a light as bright as the sun. The flash is so bright that the natural lighting of the subject doesn't matter. A child can move his head or blink his eyes without blurring the picture. The flash lasts only about one-25,000th of a second. Photographed at this speed, even the humming blades of an electric fan appear to be standing still...
Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...
...worth of silk stockings. Harriette has a reasonable explanation for the fact that most wives do not object to her overt cultivation of their bandleader husbands. She says: "I am the only virgin in the music business. . . . I go out with the fellows, drink with them, don't blink an eye at their broad stories. . . . The work requires concentration...
Part dragon, part turtle, and surmounted by a 13 foot shaft, the Chinese dragon monument causes hundreds of passers-by to stop and blink in amazement every day as they approach Widener Library from the west side of the Yard...
...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...