Word: flashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soccer War. Tensions were brought to flash point last month by a series of soccer games. A three-game play-off was held to decide who would represent Central America in the World Cup soccer championship this year. El Salvador's team went to "Tegoose" (as Yankees call the Honduran capital) and lost 1-0 in overtime. Until game time for the rematch in the Salvadoran capital a week later, the Honduran players had to be hidden outside San Salvador. The Salvadorans won, and Hondurans retaliated by vandalizing Salvadoran stores in their country and boycotting Salvadoran goods. El Salvador...
...Gallagher was asked about the weeks of silence and on the failure to implement the fourth and fifth demands. Words became heated. Then Dr. Gallaher stated that he had to leave. A dozen students moved to block the door, but he was too quick for them. In a flash, he was gone...
WINNING. In this melodrama of the Indianapolis 500, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman sometimes flash their celebrated force and conviction. For the most part, the action (like the race) merely goes in circles...
...John C. Houbolt, 50, former chief of theoretical mechanics at NASA's Langley Research Laboratories in Hampton, Va. Houbolt, a civil engineer, is responsible for the lunar-orbit rendezvous that is the key maneuver in Apollo's entire flight plan. In what he remembers as "an intuitive flash," Houbolt realized that tremendous weight savings would be gained by this rendezvous method, permitting the use of a smaller launch vehicle. Often scorned by colleagues, Houbolt fought a two-year battle, finally put his job on the line by appealing directly to NASA headquarters. His arguments prevailed in the fall...
...celestial speedometer, Dr. Edward K. Conklin, 27, used the faint field of high-frequency radiation that seems to blanket all parts of the heavens. These scattered signals, first detected by scientists of the Bell Telephone Laboratories four years ago, may well be the remnants of the primordial flash that, according to many astronomers, gave birth to the universe more than 10 billion years ago. Just as a cyclist feels more of a breeze when he rides with the wind in his face rather than at his back, the lingering radiation from the so-called "big bang" would appear slightly stronger...