Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...
...White House called for a "flash" estimate of the Pentagon's 1959 budget, got an answer of $42 billion as a working figure. This meant probable expenditures of from $39½ billion to $40 billion next year, with an increased schedule thereafter. The notion of a $38 billion ceiling on defense spending is as dead as a rubber check, perhaps for many years to come. ¶ There will be no tax cut next year; there may be an Administration request to Congress to lift the $275 billion national debt limit, although budgeteers will make heroic attempts to stay within...
...SLUNK with a shy smile into the embassy drawing room. The smoke-filled hall was an epitome of sophistication, dark suits, military uniforms, low-cut dowdy dresses, foreign correspondents with R.A.F. moustaches, and a large contingent of nervous Egyptian diplomats. It was possible in a flash to spot where the important people were gathered, for not an American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke...
...mystic at this stage, says Progoff, may seem to an outsider to be "lost in a schizophrenic state." Like a disciple in Zen Buddhism, he is "walking across the proverbial razor's edge . . . On either side is psychosis." But after the blinding flash of enlightenment that Christian mystics call union with the divine, his contact with the world is restored and he can return to his former life, "the same person, but altogether different." Progoff agrees with the author of The Cloud that this ultimate success may regulate "his conduct ao agreeably, both in body and in soul, that...
...only real danger in it is that it might become a generation of grinds. Just as the goldfish swallower is dead, so, to a large extent, is the dilettante and the knowledge-for-knowledge's-sake boy. Today's student has little patience with mere intellectual flash. Nor is he particularly tolerant of any form of obscurantism. "The college student," says Editor Howard Seemen of the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Daily, "wants something he can put his hands on. The double meaning is not popular...