Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraternity, had put new pledges through this initiation ritual. Robert Perry, a Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University's hospital. Next day Robert Perry died of shock from burns that had scorched more...
...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...been called "the most brilliant piece of prediction to be found in the whole range of organic chemistry," came to him in a dream about snakes. He wrote: "One of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before my eyes. As though from a flash of lightning I awoke . . . occupied the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis...
...carried his new credentials to the Government of Costa Rica, one of several Latin American Republics from which he had won recognition of the Soviet Union. Heavily, in the grey dawn, the plane lifted itself off the ground to 400 feet, then dived back to earth. There was a flash of blue and red flames. Then, in the blazing plane, death came to 42-year-old Ambassador Oumansky, his wife, and three Embassy officials. Nor for years had Mexico seethed with such tales of death and revenge. Madame Oumansky, it was said, had heard in the snapping of her suitcase...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...