Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flash! Ensign Robert Oaken wishes to purchase one beautiful engagement ring for one beautiful blonde. Anyone know anyone in the business? You can't trust your own uncle on them things these days...
Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...
...strode into the big third floor room in Washington's Social Security Building for his first press conference, stood silent a moment while flash bulbs popped, then reached for a prepared manuscript and began to read. It was a statement positive in tone, full of "will do" and "won't do." But in the light of the House action, it sounded throughout, to the newsmen, like "I had intended to do" and "it had been my hope not to do. . . ." Read Hoyt...
...waited and talked. The bombs jarred loose ancient reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks occurred among the stars and vanished; they were bursting shells. . . ." When the Blitz was over, the village was spent...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...