Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, saw smoke coming out of the back door. Before he could get out of the car, flames were shooting out of the school. At 2:42 he gave the first alarm. At 2:44 the first company of firemen got there, sirens screaming. The situation: a flash fire had started in the rear-basement stair well of the school's north wing, had been shut out of the first floor by fire-prevention doors, was now engulfing the second floor -fire doors open-with five classrooms, upwards of 200 children...
Coast Guard stations and ships snapped radio messages back and forth. Into the roily seas steamed rescue ships, and overhead, battering its way into the swirling winds, flew a Coast Guard plane. In Rogers City, the local radio operator got the Mayday flash. The awful word spread throughout the town. Terror-torn women clustered around radios; the wife of Wheelsman Joe Krawczak looked fearfully at the faces of her six small children...
...eerie silence descends as each even day draws to a close. Only an occasional nervous laugh betrays the outward calm of the courageous but tense villagers. They know that, come morning, the fickle, deadly torture from the mainland will begin again with rumble of cannon and flash of fire...
...points to 160.08, futures up 2.03 to 154.55) on the belief that Congress will boost support prices, causing an increase in overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...
...advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...