Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black T shirt and soft yellow moccasins, Krolik asked for a bottle of whisky -then, as Pinney turned, pulled out his new pistol and ordered: "Give me all the green money." Pinney put his money on the counter. Krolik reached, lowering his pistol slightly. In a flash, ex-Cop Pinney whipped out one of his own revolvers, shot four times. As Krolik fell to the floor without firing back. Pinney observed him "wriggling like he was going to get his gun," grabbed another pistol and filled Krolik's body with a total of nine bullets from head...
...abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined, but the I.R.A. was still short of arms. Last October the I.R.A. raided a British army depot at Omagh, Northern Ireland, but twelve of their number were captured by the British. The raid on the British army...
Smiling Front. Harold Talbott left Washington amid a flash of splendor, a flare of ill-temper, and no sign that he yet understood why he was going. Talbott was enraged when he read that Secretary Wilson had told a press conference: "I was very distressed about the whole [Talbott] business. I don't like any part of it . . . I feel I have gotten one year older." Talbott stalked into Wilson's office, crowded with reporters and cameramen focusing on his successor, Don Quarles...
...Howe flash the warning? Howe himself did not say, and tight-lipped U.S. Atomic Energy Commission officials in Washington would add nothing. But William Bennett, head of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., hinted that Ottawa had received word from Washington putting a definite ceiling on the amount of Canadian uranium the U.S. will contract...
...think he tried to make a wide sweeping turn, all the while losing altitude rapidly. I thought he was going to make it onto the Struma plain. He didn't. About 1,500 ft. off the ground the airplane disappeared in what looked like a big flash explosion, although I heard nothing. The next thing I saw was a mass of debris falling straight down." In that mass of debris died 57 people, passengers and crew...