Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flash and Roar. Correspondent Greenway, who suffered a concussion in the blast, cabled: "I was standing in front of the cigar store in the lobby when, with a flash and a roar, the wall a few feet in front of me seemed to buckle and dissolve. I was flung to the floor. That was fortunate, because great chunks of bricks and concrete flew over me, crashing through the lobby and blowing men and furniture through the plate-glass windows onto the sidewalk...
...harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the driver, a Catholic father of six. Catholic passions quickly rose to the flash point, and Protestant right-wingers demanded that British troops "take the gloves...
...ever saw," recalls Jiro Tamura, a former Japanese army captain. On that morning, just 24 hours after the atomic bomb fell, Tamura was combing the city in search of his wife (he never found her). At the eastern end of the Aioi Bridge, almost directly beneath the flash point of the bomb, he saw an old woman hurling pieces of concrete at the captive and screaming, "You Yankee devil!" When Tamura returned in the afternoon, the American was dead, chunks of concrete strewn around his battered body...
...YORK Scattering the Pigeons Once, in a blushing euphemism, they were known as "ladies of the night." Today they are called hookers, and in Manhattan, at any rate, their activities are not confined to the dark hours. Both in broad daylight and the neon night, they flash the pink, orange and purple hot pants of the Aquarian Age, not to mention the high boots that were once a specialty of their profession and are now merely fashionable. In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made...
...Plata, Mo., after crossing to the eastward track to pass a slower freight also heading west, the engineer again opens the throttle fully. With so much power hauling a relatively light train, the Super C seems to reach top speed almost as fast as an automobile. The mileposts flash by, one every 45 seconds...