Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the quiet American cities and the somnolent farms a bombers' moon shone through the cool June night. At 12:37 a.m. (E.W.T.) bells tinkled on the news tickers in newspaper and radio offices. FLASH...
...great moment in the drama of medicine: the moment when Dr. Faustus opens Nostradamus' secret book, comprehends in a flash the sign of the macrocosm, and is able at last to conjure up the Earth Spirit. But that was not the way Dr. Fleming reported his epochal perception. Said he: "I was sufficiently interested in the antibacterial substance produced by the mold to pursue the subject...
...interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...
...grey-toppered leader of English sporting-life, the Earl deplored the passing of such gentlemanly pursuits as "bare knuckles, toe-to-toe" and bearbaiting. He calculated his personal budget on the assumption that he would die at 80, lived royally and fantastically, kept hordes of Rolls-Royces, loved to flash across the countryside in the midst of a cavalcade of them...
...news trickled in in driblets: a radio flash, an A.P. bulletin, a telephone call from Wisconsin. Right from the first it was bad, incredibly, disastrously bad. When the reports from only 50 out of more than 3,000 precincts were in, Wendell Willkie said: "Well, that looks like it. We said it would be all or nothing, and it looks like nothing." Somebody suggested that 50 precincts weren't very many. But Willkie only smiled and shook his head...