Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somehow he had got too low. The left wing of the DC-3 brushed a high maple tree. There was a blinding blue flash as the ship ripped through a high-tension line, a deafening crash, silence. Then a woman began...
...members of the 25-man House Foreign Affairs Committee; in the middle of the curve crouched little Sol Bloom, chairman, looking like a Neanderthal man dressed up in clothes. Facing him were small tables and chairs-for witnesses and their staffs. In the well squatted photographers, fidgeting with flash bulbs. Sitting in every seat, almost as visibly present as the Congressmen, spectators, Capitol policemen, messengers, newsreel cameramen, were tensions, anxieties, fears, great expectations. The bill before the committee, the Lend-Lease bill, H.R. 1776, had brought all these emotions to a focus. It was possible, if these emotions focused strongly...
High above, the Stukas wheeled, broke up into sections of three and peeled off downward in screaming, vertical dives. Just as the British planes left the deck, the first Stuka dived through the crashing anti-aircraft fire, let go and flattened out. In a searing flash, a 1,000-pounder blew a hole in the flight deck to starboard, smashing planes about to take off in the next flight, causing heavy casualties among the mechanics servicing them. Another tore through the side plate, another plunged close by into the sea, its bursting fragments spattering the crew of one pompom...
...Shatzky had a psychic flash. He ran to the Institute's Director Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, exclaimed: "This can be the collection of only one man, and he is Sigmund Freud." If his hunch proved wrong, said Librarian Shatzky, he would foot the bill himself. Director Lewis got an appropriation...
...generation which Fitzgerald celebrated managed to prolong its mental childhood to the age of 21. Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...