Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comte turned on oxygen as he passed 16,000 ft., watched his altimeter going "round and round like the hands of a crazy clock." After 15 minutes it registered 32,000 ft. The fog turned thin and milky, letting a little sunlight filter through. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. Said Comte afterward: "The whole cloud lit up, with me inside it. I felt lightning hit the top of my head a sharp blow and run through my hands into the control column. The plane continued flying steady, but I was scared...
...five years of service as a fire dog, a black & white Dalmatian named Whiskers lent Hook & Ladder Company No. 10f Newark a flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
...nine-shot panel of a country doctor making his rounds, seven stages in the teaching of a deaf child, four stages in a marine's homecoming (the Steichen caption: "Boy and girl-and a visual love song"). But many pictures suggest their subject in a single, self-contained flash: a Nebraska wheatfield canopied with monumental clouds; dead G.I.s on Buna Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps before a party, while her famous husband stands by in gold braid, cooling his heels. "Humor," says Steichen, "is one of the rarest elements to be found in photography...
...oxygen saturation of the pilot's blood drops below its normal 98%, it will turn a darker, heavier red. Less light will filter through his ear lobe and less current will be given off by the photoelectric cell. A red warning light, connected to the ear unit, will flash in time for the pilot to repair his oxygen supply or get his plane down to a safe altitude...
Photographers are barred from the church during all services, including marriages. Decrying the disturbing influence of flash bulbs. Sperry said, "I won't have a religious service photographed . . . when you are praying, it is not time to be posing for a photographer...