Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd implored: "Let's hope her heartbeats stop soon...
...dignitaries' cars, a score or so of Germans watch curiously. A woman mutters savagely: "The Russian women have dresses on now. but you can see they still aren't used to them." The other women murmur appreciatively at the swishing skirts, bright prints and daring necklines that flash quickly from the door to the cars, but one husband says angrily: "Come along home. This is no cure for being hungry." In the dark street, hate blazes furiously-but not too noisily...
...Satchel, made his rival a sporting proposition: let the election turn on the game; he would bet on Satchel, and whoever won the bet would win the election. The bet was made. Satchel won in a breeze, but. didn't stick around for thanks: he detected the flash of machetes from the defeated candidate's supporters...
Attracted by gravitation, they flash down to the center of the star, releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...
...Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed, one under construction) will be able eventually to handle upwards of 60 aircraft landings and take-offs an hour...