Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These themes very soon became hackneyed and commonplace, boring the readers, but authors under the direct control of the Communist Party couldn't do anything about it. During his period of creativity, stop lights flash in the author's mind's eye warning him not to stray from the path marked out by the almighty Party. Such authors had an audience, of course, because it was compulsory for us to study the cliches they wrote, but they had no followers. Indeed, all branches of communist art lose themselves in a blind alley. Art is a decaying skeleton, kept from complete...
...There it is!" someone shouted as a flash appeared...
Perhaps most important of all, James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, head of the Arkansas State Athletic Commission, was on the scene from the beginning. Karam, once a third-string halfback at Auburn (he is fond of recalling his days as an "All-American"), turned professional strikebreaker (he bossed a goon-staffed outfit called Veterans Industrial Association Inc.), then became a Little Rock haberdasher and a near, dear friend to Governor Orval Faubus. Last week, while his wife was with Orval and Alta Faubus at Sea Island, Jimmy Karam moved purposefully around the crowd outside Central High School, whispering here, nodding...
Since ideas have form, this formlessness is completely different from any ideas that one may have about it. The only understanding of it comes from "satori" or the "awakening," an instantaneous flash of insight. It is impossible, he concluded, to "seek the Buddha externally," but only in oneself...
...possibility of American aid being asked in internal conflicts within countries with which we are allied. To give aid in cases where Communist troops threaten to overthrow friendly governments, such as Iraq, America would have to be able to get small units to the trouble areas in a flash. Such readiness would be too expensive to provide at the moment, and our best hope is that provisions for wars of small dimensions can be made now. We cannot allow such a palpable bluff as massive retaliation to stand in the way of realistic defense policies...