Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans to run for re-election next year. Gazing at his questioner piercingly, Senator Green showed a flash of indignation, gave a tart reply: "If you don't mind my saying so, it is a foolish question...
...most elusive fish in the sea, the striper is so unpredictable that surf casters have gone for years without a strike. Stripers can sulk offshore for hours far beyond the reach of a line, then flash for the beach on a whim. They can ignore the most ingenious lures bobbed past their noses by experts, then hit something splashed into the water by a novice. Toughest of all to figure are the canny ancients that go 60 lbs. and higher. "The big ones, they travel by themselves," said Oscar. "They like a big rock, and they settle under...
Return of the Pros. The Los Angeles Dodgers had moved in an aura of Hollywood make-believe all season long. Too many experiments were working out too well. Brought up from Spokane, a gutty little Negro shortstop named Maury Wills turned into a fielding flash. Pulled off the bench, boyish-faced Jim Gilliam, 30, filled the big hole at third. Picked up from St. Louis, craggy-browed Outfielder Moon, 29, lifted the team with his slashing play. The big pitcher turned out to be Roger Craig, 28, a lanky, laconic righthander, who had a horrendous 5-17 record last year...
...money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model, the Cadet, then decided that the market was too small, and scrapped it. But Cole, at that time Chevy's chief engineer, saw farther. He figured that buyers would tire of size and flash. But since all the surveys were against him, Cole knew that he had to use the greatest skill and strategy to sell...
...storm battered the sprawling lowland farming area and dumped a deluge of water which threatened floods on a dozen rivers. Flash floods were expected on smaller streams...