Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple: to get painlessly but surely inside the viewer's head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very punches...
...FLASH BULB about the size of a thimble but with lighting power of standard bulbs will be marketed by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. early next year. Zirconium-filled, it requires a special attachment, will sell for 14?, the price of larger photo bulbs...
What Is Style? As always, there would be complaints that Detroit's new chromium chariots are too long, too heavy, too bold, too brassy. Yet the inescapable fact, as every automan knows, is that flash, dash and dazzle-what automen call style-are the attractions that sell new cars. Those brave enough, and successful enough, to produce startling new styles that catch the public fancy, as Chrysler discovered in 1957, can suddenly boost profits from $6,000,000 to $103 million (and rise from 15.9% to 19.5% of the market) in a single year. Conservatives who fall behind...
...Harvard College specifies the addition of three more dental chairs. This program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...