Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this posthumous novel, Tolbecken, he had to do no grubbing in libraries. Heroes do not dash, swords do not flash. But his old fans may decide that Author Shellabarger was writing something closer to his heart, if not to his imagination. The real hero of the book is an attribute: character. Old Judge Rufus Tolbecken has it in his bones, just as the family home in the town of Dunstable (somewhere between Baltimore and Philadelphia) has it in its proud colonial lines. But as the 19th century draws to a close, the judge's kind of character and uncompromising...
mood Strange pangs would flash along Childe...
...depend on reports from observation stations, which are always too few, and often slow to arrive. With radar, they can actually watch the approach of storm clouds. Many a weather or storm disaster might have been averted or minimized if proper radars had been on the job to flash a timely warning...
...They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance, since the highest storm clouds are usually the most violent and the most likely to produce cloudbursts and tornadoes. Through their ability to see raindrops before they fall, they will enable weathermen to predict flash floods; when clouds are observed dropping heavy rain on a mountain watershed, the people in the valley below can be warned to take to the hills...
...British believe, should take about 200,000 men out of the armed forces, and perhaps end the need for conscription. As for NATO, the British would like to pull two of their four divisions out of West Germany and leave the line to a "tripwire force" adequate to flash invasion warnings to the deterrent H-bombers in Britain and the U.S. As the Manchester Guardian put it this week: "General Gruenther's screen across Europe is too weak to stop an assault by Soviet forces in East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely...