Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound Effects. So the Pfizer people selected a resonant sow and recorded both her mealtime grunt and the joyous squeals of her litter. That does the trick, says Pfizer. When the deep-sleeping pigs hear the sound effects, they wake up in a flash and connect with rows of rubber nipples charged with Terralac...
...West his vacationland is now the town's biggest asset. Because of the Truman boom, air-conditioned motels are blooming like red spider lilies in October, new stores are opening, restaurants are crowded, the sidewalks are flowing with women in shorts and halters and men in atom-flash sport shirts. Harry Truman promptly got into the gay spirit, appeared for a press conference wearing soft blue wash slacks, white shoes and a white tail-out shirt decorated with bright blue sea gulls...
This, he implied, was only a beginning. He discovered that she had simply assumed the name DuPont for flash effect during a career as a cosmetician and manufacturer of lady's chin straps, and that she was actually the daughter of a Polish laborer. As a perpetrator of "marital fraud," Doraine deserved neither a separation nor alimony, her husband argued...
...small particles that burn out quickly far above the earth. The green color is unusual, too. Meteorites generally roar like jet planes as they approach the earth, but most observers insisted that these odd objects were completely silent. Though some of them seemed to hit the surface with a flash, brilliant even in daylight, search parties so far have found no remains of the mysterious fireballs...
Electronic engineers loathe mechanical moving parts. One that has always bothered them is the light, vibrating diaphragm in the throat of a loudspeaker. Compared to the almost weightless electrons that flash through radio tubes, the loudspeaker membranes are sluggish. Their slow and clumsy response distorts the delicate signals brought to them by the electrons; the ordinary mechanical loudspeakers cannot reproduce the full range of music or the human voice. The ideal loudspeaker, the engineers have long believed, should have a diaphragm almost as weightless as the electrons themselves...