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Word: flash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present from last year's Varsity were backfield flash Chip Gannon, second-string center Chuck Glynn, and end John Fiorentino, while heading the list of former Freshmen were last fall's guard and captain Dick Guidera and back Hal Moffie. Following by two days Saturday's heated court battle at the Arena, Bill Brady was running through plays with the backfield candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Football Candidates Begin Practice With Two-Hour Workout in Briggs Cage | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

Next morning Mrs. Coombes was listening to the radio. There was a news flash. The body of an eleven-year-old girl had been found under some boards in the same lot where Robert had assaulted the other little girl two years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mother Knew Best | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...moment of governmental vacuum, after the resignation of Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana's coalition government. The issue was purely and simply Pakistan. The Moslems shouted "Pakistan Zindabad!" (Up with Pakistan!). The Hindus and Sikhs answered back: "Pakistan Murdabad!" (Death to Pakistan!). Then the knives began to flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Zindabad & Murdabad | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Alterations. Without admitting that he might be easy to get, Maury paid a few courting calls, waddled brightly around hotel lobbies, bought himself a plot in the city cemetery, and visited refuse-clogged Alazan Creek, which had flash-flooded San Antonio time & again. Some of the old machine bosses tried to head him off. And round-faced Sheriff Owen Kilday, who had engineered Maverick's defeat in 1941, had yet to declare for anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...stones were hurled, no bombs thrown, no swaggering men with lightning-flash shoulder patches patrolled the district. The decent, middle-class people of west Hollywood would have been shocked at such tactics. But they had their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Nothing Personal | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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