Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their trainers and submerge in the 6-ft.-deep water, where they can be seen circling until they begin to swim in tandem. Once they are in synch, the animals leap into the air and simultaneously spit out jets of water before plunging back into the pool. The trainers flash huge smiles at their flippered pupils and applaud wildly. The animals also seem delighted and squeak with pleasure...
...Harvard men's hockey team has flashy players like Captain Ted Drury, junior Brian Farrell and sophomore Steve Martins, but hidden behind the flash and the glitz, snuggled away on the fourth line of forwards, are three players who know that they do the dirty work best...
...Even before they began converging on India's capital for a planned antigovernment rally, about 60,000 activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party were whisked into detention. The party's Hindu militants who reached the sealed-off city were confronted by a security force of 60,000. Several flash points erupted as authorities sprayed tear gas at crowds and hauled off an additional 5,000 to sport stadiums. Through it all, the manicured lawns near the presidential palace -- planned rallying point of the militants -- remained pristinely empty...
...horse-drawn wagon on Sept. 16, 1920. When it exploded into a lunchtime crowd, 40 people died and 200 were injured. The mystery of the blast was never cleared up. The investigators who have begun scratching through the rubble of the Trade Center are determined that this flash of terror will not go unsolved...
...doing both: the world's most reclusive exhibitionist -- or most exhibitionistic recluse -- is everywhere. For the Clinton Inauguration, he led an all-star reunion of his 1985 We Are the World chorale. He spurred the Super Bowl to the largest U.S. TV audience ever, supervising a 98,000-person flash-card promotion for his Heal the World charity for inner-city children. He appeared at the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards and the American Music Awards ceremonies...