Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweepup. That night, police and soldiers began a nationwide roundup of Communists. Party big shots heard a radio news flash and, just in time, skedaddled. Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
Grimsley is definitely a man to watch in the impending tussle. A slow starter in 1946, Grimsley caught fire against the Crimson last year and danced through the Crimson defenses for both tallies. The halfback flash has had another disappointing start on his current campaign, but he turned in a top-flight exhibition against Lehigh on Saturday and may shine for the Scarlet against their New England foes once more...
...possible that TIME placed a ''WIN" bet on a Flash-in-the-Pan? Henry Morgan [TIME, Sept. 29] was slightly better than terrific last year-but-oh, Brother-how his script could use a fumigation this year...
...years have been kind to the famed Novello profile and his eyes still flash the same old exciting theatrical fire. His fans never seem to tire of his shameless romanticism. "I suppose," Novello once remarked, "it has given them some focus in life...
...filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...