Word: flash
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chart, sometimes requiring 60 wavepoints (or map references) on a single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge is on course to cross 900 m in front of the ACV's bow. That's too close for comfort, and a warning light begins to flash. On VHF channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that! Roger that!" replies Radon, eager to escape an inquisition. He needs to go below to wake Joe Homer for the next watch; before Radon can bunk...
...While something as subjective and ethereal as a national soccer idiom may be by nature impossible defend in scientific terms, it nonetheless shaped the sensibilities of fans for generations. Whenever the fans of a lowly English outfit such as Bristol Rovers see their players exhibit a flash of uncharacteristic individual skill or imagination, they sing "Brazil, it's just like watching Brazil...
...bottoms in the seats. There's too much realism, not enough magic in historical romance these days. What these movies really need are cheeky athletes as their heroes, not actors lugubriously acting. They also need villains briskly spewing sardonic menace instead of grunting incomprehensibly. Above all, they need flash, sass and genial trash. --By Richard Schickel
...time the pages includes "va-va-voom" - a term Henry famously tries to learn the meaning of in a TV advert for carmaker Renault. (According to the COED, it denotes the quality of being exciting, vigorous or sexually attractive). Henry hopes the phrase lasts longer than another new entry, "flash mobs," the planned-by-e-mail happenings that grabbed attention last year but seem to have been a flash in the pan. Tony Blair hopes "sexed up" is soon forgotten...
...Cassini's Voyage Experience the Cassini voyage from the beginning with BBC's short, informative flash animation and a small image of the spacecraft with labeled key parts...