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Word: flashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic proving grounds at Frenchman's Flat. On the desert below, the Army was supposed to have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud was still trailing across the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medium-Sized | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Hotel Vendome football writers luncheon, Jordan told the assembled scribes that his motion pictures failed to show Dartmouth end Don Myers giving Dick Clasby the Willbanks Smith treatment. The movies, according to Jordan, show the big end bearing down on Clasby and immediately flash to the umpire pacing off the penalty yardage...

Author: By E. J. Coughlin, | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 10/30/1951 | See Source »

This week, weather conditions perfect once again, the animals back in their places, the first test bomb of the maneuvers was finally fired. Barred from the site, newsmen at distant observation points thought they heard a slight rumbling. The expected blinding flash of light was not visible. The AEC would not discuss the explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Pop! | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...color and connections in the town. Meanwhile, the whites wonder what "the niggers are trumping up" and when someone is accidentally knocked down on the street, rumors spread that he was attacked by a group of Negroes. At this point "The Well's" tempo speeds up with flash shots of excited crowds in different parts of the city. It isn't long before gangs of teenagers start roaming the streets and smashing windows in the colored section. As the contagion spreads, the older folks join in. Negroes are dragged from their cars and worked over, and in retaliation the Negro...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Well | 10/26/1951 | See Source »

Frederick Fox's scenery was extremely effective. The Russian prison looked dark and formidable, and three tiers of cells were erected on the stage. The cell walls were made of a material which would become transparent with the use of lights, so that flash-backs, showing Rubashov moving from his 1937 cell directly to a pre-Revolutionary meeting, could occur without changing scenery or lowering the curtains...

Author: By Frank B. Ensign jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

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