Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Korea, there was only a corporal's guard of correspondents on hand. The first man with news of the North Korean attack was Jack James of the United Press, whose flash from Seoul reached Washington shortly after 9 p.m. on a sweltering Saturday night-more than 20 minutes before the coded cable from U.S. Ambassador John Muccio...
...wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning's glare." He took a quick bearing on the explosion, made a sailor's guess of a distance of 20 miles...
...spite of a lightning flash that skittered down some loose wires and across his basement workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...feed the presses. TIME uses 44 million pounds of paper and a million pounds of ink a year. To satisfy the requirements of our high-speed presses, a volatile, fast-drying ink is used. As the paper spins through the press, it passes through big heating ovens which flash-dry the ink almost instantly...
Swollen Waters. The change had no more effect on racing conditions. The night before the race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...