Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before geting to the detail of the day, here's a flash, right in the pan. The ban on travel will definitely be lifted for the post-exam week-end. You'll be free to go where you please from Noon on Saturday, May 15th, to Midnight (2400) Tuesday, the 18th. So, go on and make that New York date. But, "See here," don't you come back late. (well, well, a rhyme...
Voice of Warning. No one except the Chinese knows how many there are of these little primary posts. The secondary posts are all linked together by telephone lines. Here, at certain secret points like Mickey's, U.S. radio stations have been set up to tap the secondary and flash warning of raiders to American fighter posts in the hinterland...
...crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there with a flash bulb in the bloody alley where the body lies...
...citizen rents a locker at $7-$20 a year, buys meat, vegetables and fruit at wholesale prices, stores it away, eats it months or even years later. For safe preservation, most locker plants use the "sharp-freeze" method, whereby food is flash-frozen at minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler...
Then they saw flashing light. Here, certainly, was an opportunity to go to town on seven to eight words a minute. One short flash, two-long ones ... aha, a William! Three short blinks, then a long one ... Victor, no less...