Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change of air every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash red. and close to her skinny fingers was the button that she had been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical...
...spite of an occasional flash of gallows humor that sometimes sounds as if its author were not really sure what takes place at a hanging, the book trots on amiably enough. The pigeons of the title belong to spies, and Heroine Lady Sophia Garfield has some rousing cloak-and-dagger experiences. The most amusing touch is a supposed renegade who shatters the morale of Britain's pet-lovers by broadcasting that "few dogs and no cats carried gas masks, and gas-proof cages for birds and mice were the exception rather than the rule. The animal first-aid posts...
...novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary...
Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...
Through a series of flash-backs, Stewart recalls, successively, how as a youth he fell in love with the beauteous and fragile Catherine Carey; how the pressure of family and circumstance forced him to give her up; how she flirted around in college, then married a quasi-brutish, brilliant and sensitive medical student, Jerome Martell; how Martell, in his masculine fervor, was unfaithful to her, then left her to fight in Spain; how Martell was officially reported tortured and killed by the Nazis; how he, Stewart, at last marries his Catherine; and how, miraculously, the invincible Martell proved that reports...