Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breath asking scene of the spitfire over Dover which sets the powerful pace before the titles flash on the screen in Breaking the Sound Newton, buried in the sand up to his head and teaming eloquently at the rising tide in the title role of Black-beard Charlie Chaplin's imitation of a violin is with unsanforized legs in limelight...
Different in many respects, perhaps, but not in the basic one. Sure, some of them are Olympic vets-you can tell them because they schuss the slaloms, roll up their shirt sleeves, wear goggles, and usually flash a toothy grin and yodel something in Austrian at you-they are the ones that know how. Or else they're earnest. You can tell this type because they refuse a cocktail at noon and always rush off to the slopes like Greta Garbo-"I vant to be alone!" They do parallel christies all the way down the slope, stand at the bottom...
would send a heat flash sufficient to ignite combustible material, or to cause killing third-degree burns on exposed skin, within an area of 300 square miles."- Said the Alsops: "We can no longer doubt that men can make . . . the ten-megaton bomb with a force of 10 million tons of TNT." Air Secretary Thomas Finletter was just as gloomy as the Alsops. He said: "The destructive power of atomic weapons includes not only explosive blasts of force and heat but also the gamma ray-a ray which is deadly to human life. The gamma ray is, as it were...
...fact," asked Counsel Kiendl, "that you paid these moneys for the purpose of avoiding the possibility of ... flash strikes?" Replied Kennedy: "I say I gave him the money. If it prevented strikes, then that's what it done, but I didn't actually pay to prevent strikes." Kiendl: "Your motive was to pay the money and hope that it would keep you out of trouble?" Kennedy...
...perfection from his machines but is "too quick to excuse the lack of it in his people"; Don Walling, the fair-haired boy of design and development who seems to "skitter about over the . . . surface" of a problem, gathering up unrelated facts, and then solves it with "a brilliant flash of pure creative imagination"; J. Walter Dudley, the sales boss, a "runner who [runs] without a goal" and thinks that if he runs hard, and makes enough friends, "everything [will be] all right"; Frederick Alderson, treasurer, a tired old company veteran and longtime confidant of the boss; and Loren Shaw...