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Word: flash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians got to work. A lot of them showed up in Cambridge for the dedication of the Kennedy School of Government--although Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...crowds, and new posters blossomed, finding fault with Chairman Hua personally. Even more startling, both Taiwan and the U.S., once derided for their capitalist faults, were held up by orators as models of economic progress that China would do well to emulate. Given all this, foreign embassies began to flash home word of major impending developments, including perhaps the possibility of a new line-up in Peking's Politburo. Whatever happens, the results seem likely to secure further the power of Teng Hsiao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mao Tse-tung to the Wall | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Coach Carole Kleinfelder started two freshmen and two sophomores along with junior Caryn Curry in the season opener. The Crimson's inexperience showed plainly in the first half, as UMass rolled to a 39-17 lead at the half, paced by 20 points from flash forward Susan Peters...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UMass Women Defeat Cagers | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...Britain's National Theater, Harold Pinter is throwing the eternal triangle into reverse. In the first of nine scenes he stirs the ashes of an adulterous love affair in 1977, and in the last reveals its flash-fire inception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Splinteresque | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Though someone suggested that we go find a radio and listen to the Harvard-Yale football game (apparently it was being played just then), we opted instead for Blutarsky's sage advice, and drank heavily. Every now and again a flash of red or white would elicit a cheer from one side or the other--moments later the scoreboard would satisfy any curiosity that remained, and we groundlings would join in the fun. A delayed reaction, to be sure, but spirited all the same. And yet how marvelous a thing it would have been to have watched Harvard play Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disgruntled Fan | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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