Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great journey had all but ended in a bad press, for the newspapers of the U.S. were angry. They had been left out. Prime Minister Winston Churchill had carried along British reporters-"literary men" from the Ministry of Information-but Mr. Roosevelt had not. The first flash confirming the meeting had come from Ottawa a few minutes before the White House pressmen had been allowed to release it. Then London had blanketed the U.S. report by providing all the interesting details. The British were told more under censorship than the U.S. without...
From the 19-and 20-year-old fighter pilots they learned that it has been standard R.A.F. practice to "stooge around" the French and Low Country airports when the tired Nazi bombers return to base, wait for them to slow down and flash their recognition lights, then pounce on them and "brown them off when the Nazi pilot is thinking 'Now for a beer...
What is the Nazi airman like who, in a flash of TNT and the space of a second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...
...threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs, the lavender and purple clouds of smoke and debris, the dun-colored houses standing above the muddy river, to the bodies burned black in the white-hot ashes of demolished dwellings. Only thing missing is the red flash of anti-aircraft guns. Of these, Chungking had pitifully...
...brass-buttoned, forest-green tanker's uniform, which he designed, and which made the Second Division nicknamed him Flash Gordon...