Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ceiling Unlimited. But all great powers find themselves helplessly engaged in a kind of no-ceiling poker game in which each feels obliged to arm itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
...Segre-Chamberlain team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits an antiproton, they annihilate each other, both turning into a powerful flash of gamma-ray energy...
...fitted this concerto perfectly, while not sloughing over the more lyrical passages. The second theme of the opening movement, particularly, with its appealing soulfulness, had a tender, longing quality without being sentimental. One could have wished for just a little less deliberateness in the second movement, a little more flash in the finals, and greater rhythmic definition throughout; but these are minor considerations in the light of a competent and careful performance...
...this mechanism, Beltsville scientists under Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks, 60, first played all the colors of the spectrum on a variety of plants. Most colors had no effect. But when red light was played on the plants, the effect was dramatic. They reacted even to a brief, 30-sec. flash of red light during a 14-hour period of darkness. Apparently programed to the proposition that a new day had begun, the plants altered growth cycles accordingly...
...these were brilliant people, and occasionally they flash free of the author's clutch, as when "Monk" Lewis, master of the supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above...