Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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APPARENTLY FOR NO BETTER REASON THAN THE PRESSURE TO GET THE STUFF TOGETHER AND ON ITS WAY, HE WAS WORKING ONLY 18^ INCHES FROM THE SUBCRITICAL MASSES WITHOUT ANY PROTECTIVE GUARDS. ADMITTEDLY GOING TOO FAST FOR SAFETY, HE LET HIS SCREWDRIVER SLIP. IN LESS THAN A FLASH HE RECEIVED A FATAL DOSE OF RADIATION. FULLY AWARE THAT DEATH WAS CERTAIN, AND NOT WANTING ANY KNOWLEDGE TO DIE WITH HIM, SLOTIN RETURNED THE NEXT DAY TO THE LABORATORY AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO THE STAFF WHICH HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTING IN ASSEMBLY. NOT UNTIL...
Littler than Least. Vienna in the late spring of 1946 was a broken city. The baroque grandeur of its stone merely served as a backdrop for uncleared rubble, and the remnants of its once-blithe spirit were merely counterpoints to present hopelessness. Within the brief flash of 30 years, Vienna had in turn been the gay and gilded center of an empire, the outsized capital of a bankrupt rump republic, a subordinate, provincial town in Nazi Germany, and the cringing wartime scene of bombings, street fighting, burning, looting...
Shipping circles suspected that the growing paralysis of the port was part of the master plan to soften up the shipowners for the C.I.O. maritime unions' strike, set for June 15. Also unionists wanted to delay sailings so as to be ashore if & when their strike is called. "Flash strikes" on ships over petty grievances were becoming increasingly frequent...
...crocheting down to afternoon tea at the restaurant where Tolly's trio-which specializes in light classics-will play Cruising only by request. The two chums have already written a new Skaters' Waltz, but, says Eily, "We'll never write another Cruising. It was just a flash...
...they pulled into Berlin's suburban Wannsee station at one o'clock the next morning, the grim sights dimmed in the excitement of arrival. A brass band, on weary stand-by for five hours, blared out There'll Be Some Changes Made. Flash bulbs popped...