Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before, in trains, aircraft, rainstorms, under water...
...Colon stage was set for Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. For the role of the Infanticide Boris, Chaliapin was making up, robing in his dressing room. Wires and microphones were in readiness to flash the deep magic of Chaliapin's singing throughout the land. Time for the opening curtain neared. Suddenly, without warning, Chaliapin declared that if a single note of his were broadcast under no circumstances would he set foot on stage...
...where it was definitely established that a plane was struck by lightning. Extensive ground tests with artificial lightning conducted by Ohio Insulator Co. upon a Barling NB3 monoplane produced no material damage, but did give rise to a belief that the psychological (also blinding, deafening) effect of a lightning flash close at hand may incapacitate a pilot long enough for disaster to occur...
...Lawrence sees in "Bottom Dogs" savage America conquered and subdued as the expense of the instinctive, and intuitive sympathy of the human soul . . . the collapse of the flow of spontaneous warmth between a man and his fellows. No one could read this book without having the realization flash across his mind that all is not well in this nation of Prohibition and Listerine advertisements...
...blindly through the pea-soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...