Word: flashiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hundreds of tanks and armored cars thundered through the streets of Tehran last week, as U.S.-made Phantom jets screamed through the skies overhead. In a powerful show of force, the Iranian armed forces rolled out their heaviest armament and their flashiest regiments for the annual armed forces day parade. Traditionally, the festivities are an occasion for full-dress reviews and elegant tea parties for officers and their wives. This time, however, it was a day for showing strength and loyalty to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Two weeks ago, in a desperate effort to counter rising opposition to his autocratic...
...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...
These are only the flashiest, most visible signs of the Evangelicals' rising prosperity. The real progress of the faith is less visible. It goes on at the grass-roots level from one convert to another in thousands of local congregations, some of them quite small and isolated. It is a highly personal brotherhood. And for most Evangelicals the experience of receiving Christ is the principal event of any Christian life...
...spent the night at police headquarters). He is also a confident gambler. He gambled millions on the 1976 Olympics, and made that sprawling assortment of track meets, wrestling and swimming contests a prime-time commercial success. Chronology and coherence may have been sacrificed as he zeroed in on the flashiest contests and concentrated on popular favorites, switching relentlessly from one arena to another, but the result was exciting television. Arledge liked the way his sportscaster Jim McKay "in the 30 seconds between two events could add a dimension, a fact, a clarification." To Arledge, the news anchorman's function...
...contest between giant Kodak (1975 sales: $5 billion) and smaller, but well-entrenched Polaroid ('75 sales: $812.7 million), both with large marketing organizations and big ad budgets, promises to turn into one of the flashiest tussles ever. Polaroid chose Oscar night last month to introduce its Pronto instant-picture camera before a television audience of millions; it backed up that campaign with an advertising blitz in national magazines. Kodak has the same eye for glamour. Capitalizing on the Bicentennial, it will begin national marketing of its new cameras on July 4, although some cameras will be sold before that...