Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the still cautious Britons were those who had managed to survive a V-bomb strike, and those who had been lucky enough to be 200 yards or more away when a giant V-2 let loose. They would never forget the brilliant white flash of the explosion, the torn bodies of the dead and the numbed, blackened faces of the injured. V-2 had given no warning to those it killed or maimed, but those who had been on the fringes of its blast would never forget its sounds...
Ruth Elizabeth Collins is a comely girl who went to New York from Concord, Mass, to become a dance band singer. She changed her name to Dale Belmont, borrowing the first name of Flash Gordon's girl friend. At first she had little success. But after a microscope salesman named Joe Bonds became her manager she began wearing sweaters. Engagements at Manhattan's Versailles and Glass Hat followed...
...steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area, and the beach was weird with the yellow-light of star shells and the red flash of mortars that fell all around...
...that certain sense of touch that makes a businessman a businessman, the Service News was made for ya. Loin the business from the bottom up. Or ya like the solitude of the darkroom and the cool dribble of hypo through your fingers. Perhaps it's the flash of light bulbs and the excitement of dangerous assignments that fascinates ya. We got the darkroom, hypo, and we can cook up the danger...
Brilliant and melodramatic though these are, they seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...