Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...
...press conference, four hours after arrival, was the most pack-jammed of the convention. Henry Wallace had to be shoved through the crowd (only a third were newsmen). Sitting on a rickety table, with flash bulbs popping and microphones thrust at his face, Henry Wallace said stiffly, belligerently: "I am in this fight to the finish." What did he think of the President's feeble endorsement of him, which some of his own followers were calling a stab in the back? "The President did all I expected him to do. I told him that in justice to himself...
...Lever Bros, the deal was a gold mine. Pepsodent grossed $3 million in 1943 and is leading the toothpaste field on its slogan of "Pepsodent with Irium." Irium-smiling "Chuck" Luckman, the man who put the flash in Pepsodent, will stay on as president, will make no changes in policy, and will keep the famed, funny $15,000-a-week Bob Hope radio show to advertise only Pepsodent. Said Luckman: "This is a merger of champions. Together we ought to do pretty well...
...crowd got its biggest thrill in the early rounds when Botvinnik, playing indifferently, lost to a 20-year-old flash named David Bronstein, a Stalingrad railroad worker playing in his first national contest. But blondish, bespectacled Botvinnik was too self-assured to be ruffled. He went on to retain his title with 12½ points out of a possible...
...Smyrna, Leyden learned (in the first of several flash backs), Dimitrios had merely committed a murder. Then he framed a Moslem friend (Monte Blue) into dying for the crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...