Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Root nosed the ship down slightly as thousands of pounds of bombs shot down onto Yawata. Root made a steep left turn. Through the copilot's windows I could see another Superfortress on the bomb-run below us; there was another overhead. Then there was a brilliant flash below...
...told, some 50 men and women were on the invasion team on the editorial floor. When the flash came we told them to get a good night's sleep (for they would need it), but to set their alarm clocks for an early start on June 7. First arrivals began coming in sleepy-faced a little after six-and long before the first story conference at 9, we had a fine start integrating the day's news with our stacks of advance research...
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...Prevent the wild "flash" floods which, through rain and melting snows from lofty Mount Shasta, have annually devastated the Central Valley's homes and agriculture...
...than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been engraved two months ago, laid away at the printers' to await the fateful flash from England...