Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
Barbara Ann's handlers plainly considered the European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...
Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
...cautious, skillful, and fairly conservative game. In contrast to the suave, sure fingered pre-war man, the postwar pinball virtuoso crouches hungrily over his mechanical Christmas tree hammering it viciously and helping out with body English. Others stand aloofly at a distance so as better to see the lights flash...
...listed gifts that any woman can buy almost anywhere. Argyle seeks, preferably hand-made and in colors not too blinding, got a sweeping majority of votes. Albums of classical or jazz records finished second. Books were third, equipment useful in pursuit of sport or hobby--tees for the golfer, flash bulbs for the photographer same next, and a dozen voters were ready to settle for a picture of the girl. The fiftieth man held for the woman herself...