Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rendition of "Goin' Home" (from, naturally enough, the New World Symphony), doesn't seem ludicrous after an intense portrayal of life in the hospital wards, Director Anatole Litvak uses occasional special effects with great success, particularly for the doctors' Inquisition to which each patient must submit before release. The flash-back technique, employed when doctors probe the patient's unconscious to unearth disturbing influences, is slick and convincing...
...suspicious. Eyewitnesses said the plane had seemed to explode in midair. "We got the chores done a little after dark," recalled Beet Farmer Conrad Hopp Jr.. "and me and the kids and the missus had just set down to eat when we heard an explosion and seen a flash of light in the sky out through the window. I run out into the yard, and there was another explosion. It looked like a haystack on fire...
...escaped us now, as all escape into death, both from friends and enemies. But the memory of his face, his voice, his wit that seemed to gather slowly like a storm and flash with its lightning, these are still strongly with us, and there is none among us that doesn't have a sentence or phrase or episode etched on his cortex to remind him of what manner of man Sherwood was. No stranger could ever encounter Bob without becoming aware that he was in the presence of a formidable brain and personality. No friend...
...most startling changes to be introduced by one automaker on 1957 models. The brake will be operated by a radar screen, built inconspicuously into the radiator grill. As the radar-equipped car approaches any object ahead, e.g., another car or a garage door, the radar screen will flash an impulse to the brakes, which will slow down or stop the car. The mechanism will be geared to take into account the speed of the car as well as the distance. For example, the radar car would be halted with a jolt if a car only a short distance ahead stopped...
...negative electrical charge-would eventually be found. But their theories also told them that antiprotons, though stable in a vacuum, cannot exist in contact with ordinary matter. As soon as one of them encounters a normal proton, both it and the proton it hits will vanish in a flash of energy. This makes antiprotons hard to find in nature, which is loaded with ordinary protons lying in wait to destroy them. It is like searching for living insects in a bottle...