Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technician, holds up a sheet of copper (90? per lb.) and says to a friend: "Wow! Did you ever see the kitchen hood I built from this stuff?" Musing about copper planters, he stacks up a roll of Nalgene chemical-resistant plastic, and a couple of xenon flash tubes used to trigger ruby lasers. "It's fascinating what you can do with these," he gloats. "You can make a short-duration light-pulsing device." For fun? "Oh, yeah...
Corporal James Hines, 22, of Forest City, Iowa, was not even in the building but was sleeping in a tent about 20 yds. away. "I heard somebody yell to stop the truck, then I saw a flash of light." Entangled in debris, with dirt raining down, Hines squirmed his legs free and began kicking wildly. Rescuers spotted the legs and pulled him out before he suffocated. Did he feel lucky? "I think the chaplain put that rather well," Hines said quietly. "He called us 'the chosen...
Many computers are used as high-tech flash cards in math and spelling. Scorning such applications, computer scientists argue that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise...
...stage is thrust up from the floor and split into two unequal planes. Enter eleven dancers clad in black, red or white pajamas, their costumes slit wide to flash inner forearms and thighs. Slowly they start to spin, hop and shuffle in smooth synchronicity. Out of huge loudspeakers suspended from the ceiling comes the foghorn blast of a low note-like the opening of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra-played by a synthesizer; later the music rises in a blast of brass to a Brucknerian apotheosis...
PENN 21, BROWN 20--The Quakers are no flash in the Pen, and the Bruins couldn't even topple Princeton last week. Still, this one will be close...