Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the sun had dropped below the horizon and a white ground mist had crawled slowly up the valley floor along the black line of the Lunghai railroad, Li telephoned an order to his artillery commanders. Within a few minutes two spots in the valley blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then...
...home it must be different. Nelson's two cocker spaniels, Flash and Gooky, will block and tackle for dog biscuits. "And when you ask them what they do on Saturdays," Davey admits craftily, "They stand on their hind legs and pray...
...regarded as species of a low zoological order but as young citizens, each with a militant Mom poised and ready to holler outside a Congressman's door. Furthermore, they were to be treated with patience, tolerance and understanding and were never to be subjected to the flash-burn of Old Army profanity...
...called in a barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
Drab, Socialist and hard-pressed Britain badly needed a flash of color, a majestic reminder of past glory. Last week it got one. The pageantry lasted for only a few hours; the worries, the austerity would remain...