Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette, who doesn't touch the stuff himself, followed an old Iowa tradition by blaming it all on "gambling and speculation." Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from...
Irrespective of their actual ages, some people move old, some move young. Ike moves young. It is noticeable in the spring of his walk as he enters a room. It is' noticeable in the flash-like speed in which he moves from sitting to striding in the middle of an interview. It is noticeable in a meeting when, with youthful effortlessness, he swings from a low slouch (pressure on third lumbar) to bolt upright...
...grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch any runaways to an upgrade. Once off the hill and on a tamer grade, the 91-mile railroad winds through a palm-tufted savannah, a rocky badlands where flash floods can fill dusty ravines with ten feet of water in a few minutes, and finally a sandy semidesert to the Caroni river...
...ring of the telephone and a voice that said cheerily: "Good morning. This is the Sands operator. We have been asked to awaken you so you could get up and prepare for the wedding." In the Gold Room of the Sands, everything was ready. Newsreel cameras, TV equipment and flash guns lined the wall. Los Angeles Herald & Express Reporter Jimmy Crenshaw spotted a musician carrying a bull fiddle and made for Pressagent Freeman. "I got it in the paper already, boy," cried Reporter Crenshaw. "no music, no wedding march; there better not be a wedding march." Freeman obliged: "O.K. Rita...
...Ekco Products Co. of Chicago, biggest U.S. manufacturer of housewares, thought so much of television that it made a bit of history by signing, at one fell swoop, to sponsor four new ABC network nighttime programs: The George Jessel Show, Jamie, Quick as a Flash and Comeback...