Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loquacious testimony of a defense witness who did testify last week sparked a rare flash of Hoffman humor. "You're too high-priced a writer to give us all that detail for free," the jurist told high-priced Writer Norman Mailer. The amateur boxer and ring buff later summed up Hoffman as a verbal sparring partner: "A fast-moving featherweight who never gets his left out of your face. But he'd never knock anybody...
...Flash: the Department of Agriculture has just discovered how to banish pests without lethal insecticides like DDT. "Beer, either fresh or stale," reports the department's recent newsletter, "is substantially superior to other bait compounds used to control slugs, one of the most troublesome pests infesting farms, gardens and greenhouses...
...without Buck Rogers there might not have been any Martian Chronicles. There almost certainly would not have been any Flash Gordon, Or "This Island Universe." Or "Fireball XL-5." Or Roger Ramjet...
...also explained to us that cameras were not allowed within the courthouse. It was even illegal for anyone to take pictures of our group outside the Federal Building. Minutes later a man drove up alongside the building, stopping about twenty fect away. There was a flash from a camera, and two policemen converged on the car. A verbal confrontation followed, and the man drove away...
...frantic hawker stands in front of each shop, jerking passersby inside with either a friendly tug or a non-stop, 78 r. p. m. sales-pitch. The walls, laden with shining guitars, pinata dolls, and obscenely fluorescent paintings of nudes and bull-fights, flash down aggressively at the customer. Mexicans sit behind the counters, talking and laughing, while middle-aged, paunchy Americans solemnly try on yard-wide sombreroes in front of the mirrors...