Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than 14 years after its dedication, the National Gallery in Washington ranks with the world's finest. The gallery's principal offering is a grand tour of Western art-from stiff but splendid beginnings in Siena and Florence right through to the skyrocket flash and fizzle of modern times. Casual visitors may make the tour in a day, students in a decade; the gallery is solidly studded with masterpieces...
Fifteen Seconds to Alaska. Reports of every unidentified aircraft spotted over North America flash through the Air Defense network to the blockhouse in Colorado Springs, General Chidlaw's command post. On the great Plexiglas map, from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere...
...rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy is like a reluctant knight going out to engage the dragon. His armor is on awry and he drives out his horse with no flash of enthusiasm, but somehow in the end the dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without hysterical wailing, as "a bad skin disease, rather than a cancer...
Over-rated publicity-wise, it was built upon the flash-and-feint theory and played better football in September than it did in November. That Harvard was in better condition can be shown by the comparative injury lists, and the way the Yale team tired in the Fourth quarter while the Crimson seemed to get stronger...
...Jordan has stressed fundamentals instead of flash, then it is to his credit that against Brown the blocking and tackling on his team were sound, the penalties fewer and far between, and that finally the team is ready to vary its offense. The Dartmouth Monday morning quarterbacks to the contrary, the Crimson would be in neither such good physical nor comparable mental shape if it had played ahead of itself early in the season...