Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandhog, was lowered into the crater with a partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window in its corroded sides. Peering in with mirrors and flashlights, they saw a flash of pink 40 feet below at a bend in the old well pipe. There was no movement...
Dean Acheson, brown-suited and carefully brushed, let photographers swirl and flash around him. Then for an hour he held forth. Quickly he read through the treaty's 14 articles. Essentially, the parties to the pact agreed that...
What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...Tolstoy described his grey-eyed, red-lipped heroine as "so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile." And, Tolstoy added, she had "a rather fully developed figure...
...within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang. It hit the streets with news of D-day in Europe only 18 minutes after the A.P. flash...