Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a nation and a continent are sick at soul, it may sometimes happen that some seemingly irrelevant incident, some senseless isolated instance of violence or stupidity, serves better than acres of learned analysis to yield a bright flash of insight into the breakdown of normal social and human standards. Such an incident occurred last week near Wiener-Neudorf, in Austria's Russian zone...
...best friends dropped in," the Number One Comic told the press later. "B, Horseshoes Rose, R. Cresson Harlow, A. Red Sheridan, and U. Press Flash had loads to say. For instance, 'Glad you got the Bird' and nice things like that...
What About the Dam? As the ponderous curtains of rain swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
...about a hundred yards we watch helplessly what is happening. There is a priest beside Eguino. . . . Right now Eguino was killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened crowd in the plaza a woman screamed: "The voice of God-it is God punishing...
...Chicago retailer exclaimed: "New York gets discouraged by a seven-point drop in the stockmarket but by the time the flash gets here, we're only two points discouraged. Five points get lost in the Illinois corn...