Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered his bleeding wife on the floor, gasping, "A bomb! A bomb!" Three hours later, she was dead...
...bomb detonated in a flash of orange. A growing white circle indicated that he had destroyed his opponent's forces. But the weapon he chose was so powerful that it also wiped out his own troops. His only comment: a subdued "Holy smoke." Says George Smith, one of the program's designers: "The rapidity of casualties surprised them...
...Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulders asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't would...
...petroglut and pushing prices higher. Most experts, though, felt that the war is unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis because the global economic slump continues to hold down energy use. But the energy situation will again become dangerous once world economies start growing. Writes Yergin: "The more likely flash point occurs when accidents interact with a market in which demand is rising, as was discovered in 1973 and 1979. Thus, the world enters the danger zone when economic activity and energy demands are on the upswing...
...mass gathering of people, machines, dripping oil, burning rubber, alcohol and rising fumes that draws them to Indy. The race itself is but one interesting diversion during The Event, The Party. Others return year after year to sit in the same seats and keep careful score as the cars flash by, but they are of a totally different breed. People who sit in the stands wear imitation Penske racing team windbreakers and "Five for Foyt" buttons. Infielders wear "God rides a Harley" T-shirts and buttons which plead, "Show Us Your Tits...