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Word: flashful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtroom justice touched off the ugliest and most violent anti-American riot in Formosa's history. Unlike many anti-U.S. outbreaks in the Far East and elsewhere in recent years, last week's riot was no carefully organized manifestation of left or right, but a spontaneous, flash-fire uprising. And because it was misunderstood, and its consequences unforeseen, it very nearly became something worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: A Question of Justice | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...noticed that Ike had taken off his glasses and, with head tilted slightly to the left, was staring thoughtfully into space. Edging past the long-lens cameras used by most other photographers in the White House TV-radio room, Timesman Tames held his Rolleiflex at waist level, aimed his flash high to the left and caught Ike's expression with one exposure null of a second at f.16). When Tames sent a print to be autographed, he learned that the brow-furrowed shot had been chosen by Eisenhower for his first "official" portrait (TIME, Feb. 15. 1954). the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Straight Man | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Dramatic Flash. What Ford needed desperately, Wallace said at the outset, was a name "that flashes a dramatically desirable picture in people's minds . . . Over the past few weeks this office has confected a list of 300-odd candidates which, it pains me to relate, are characterized by an embarrassing pedestrianism. We are miles short of our ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Ars Poetica | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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