Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...
Tested infra-red flash tonight in the hope that somehow I could cover the night attack, but even the flash's dimness could cost lives and I can endanger no one. So instead I am going to try to shoot by the light of flares, and they will be enemy flares, but I have to try for this terror in the darkness. People somehow must realize what it means...
...Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash and thunder of a battle cruiser opening fire...
...Fruitful Life. Meanwhile John Okie enjoyed life. He traveled to Europe, brought back art objects for the Big Tepee, entertained lavishly. There were-and still are-deer and antelope, grouse, pheasant and duck to be hunted on the vast ranch. The tumbling creeks flash with trout. In 1930, aged 67, John Okie went hunting ducks along one of his irrigation reservoirs, slipped in and was drowned. The 57,500-acre empire of the Big Father declined...
...last week the school janitor went down to the basement to rinse his mop, found windows smashed, wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...