Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blinding Flash. Shigeko was the youngest and prettiest of Oyster-Fisherman Masayuki Niimoto's three daughters. The two elder sisters and their brother were away from Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Shigeko was on her way to the Hiroshima Girls' Commercial High School, where she had just entered the freshman class. As she crossed the Tsurumi Bridge, someone called "Look!" It was a few seconds before 8:15 a.m. Shigeko turned. Then: "A blinding flash, and I fell to the ground. I covered my eyes with my hands. As I struggled to get to my feet, something...
Little intricacies came through as if etched, loud octaves as if the fingers of his right and left hands were attached by a coupling mechanism. Gilels' brilliance left some listeners with the same feeling in the ear that a flash of lightning can cause in the eyes...
...psychological grace notes of the play, but Author Hayes has written a meller with the coiling continuity of a whiplash, and a savage snapper at the end of it. Producer-Director William Wyler has the capacity to see the whole of a motion picture in one flash across the private screen of imagination; and into this sense of the whole he can interpolate ornament-all kinds of human dado and humoristic acanthus-with a skill that gives spontaneity to the grand design without collapsing its tension. Does the little boy refuse to drink his milk? Just let Bogart side with...
...rather plump, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace stopped off in Des Moines to visit his son, Poultry Farmer Henry B. Wallace, and have a look at his grandson, Henry D. Wallace, nine months old. Wallace smiled proudly at little Henry, who regarded him gravely as news photographers' flash bulbs popped. Wallace told a Des Moines Rotary Club luncheon that President "Eisenhower's plan for mutual inspection of bomb installations in the U.S. and Russia is a practical first step toward making the world safe from one of its most explosive dangers," later added that he was through...
...opera's numerous scenic effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...