Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baer lost the fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...
...Howey, attracted by William Randolph Hearst's isolationist policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...
...captaincy for next year was finally decided with the election of Milt Green. The Newton flash took firsts in three events at Yale and will be the only Harvard athlete to compete in more than one event in England, being entered in both hurdle events and the broad jump...
From across the field came the heavy roll of drums, muffled under their black covers. Down the field came the glint of bayonets, the flash of many flags, and then silently over the turf came the entire army of Poland. Every general of division, every colonel of every regiment was there marching beside his regimental colors and a platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over...
...Colonels. No sooner did news of the end flash to the world last week than headlines blossomed with potent questions. Who would succeed the old Marshal? He had been friendly to Germany, would Poland now swing back to France? Would Adolf Hitler seize on the next few months of indecision for a desperate try to regain the Polish Corridor? Would Pianist Ignace Paderewski come out of political oblivion? Would Foreign Minister Josef Beck be next Dictator of Poland? It was far too soon for any man to know the answer to any of these but one thing was certain...