Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the roof torches flickered in the night air. On the second floor the huge windows were flung wide. The crowd in the square could look directly into the vast frescoed office of Il Duce, lighted up like a stage setting. Round the edge of the crowd the flash bulbs of photographers flickered like heat lightning...
...without the use of a single regiment, Japan's Major General Kenji Doihara set up a pro-Japanese "autonomous government" in eastern Hopei known as the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism. Its head was a twerpish-looking young man known as Yin Ju-keng, whose only flash of independence is a stolid refusal to allow himself to be photo graphed with his two Japanese advisers...
...farm, labor, social security, crime, conservation, relief? Last week the centre of that storm was over Chicago and, like the centre of many a storm, it was a dead calm. Democrats and Republicans, sitting side by side in conference, tackled that highly charged question. Yet there was hardly a flash of political lightning, for their object was not to get elected but to get results, not to break political heads but to try a new invention in practical government...
...anchor man will be Milt Green, who will probably be pitted against Jesse Owens, colored flash from Ohio State. His college will form the most serious competition for the Harvard team. Another strong contender will be Cornell...
Work was done for the day and the current in the powerful apparatus was turned off. A potential between 2,000 and 5,000 volts lurked in a condenser. From another room technicians saw a blinding flash. They rushed in to find Engineer Harry E. Lawrence, 33, University of Pittsburgh graduate, sprawled on the floor. The jolt had torn the shoes from his feet. They tried to revive him, failed...