Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion was over in a flash, but the horror of it all deepened through the week. Day and night, rescue workers picked through the rubble, desperately looking for survivors. Cranes gingerly hoisted slabs of broken concrete up and away from the site, while bulldozers scraped away debris. A searcher somewhere inside the wreckage kept yelling through a bullhorn: "If anybody can hear me, please call for help." No one did. By Saturday, members of the rescue teams were still uncovering corpses buried under the avalanche of what was once the U.S. embassy. At one point, the rescuers pulled the body...
...more years abroad, Coleman settled in Manhattan. She tried to kick her heroin habit, enrolling in a methadone program. But soon she discovered an irresistible thrill: speedballs, injections of coke and heroin mixed together. She thus acquired a craving for the drug she had once dismissed. "The intense flash from the cocaine was so wonderful that if I only had $20 I'd buy coke...
...performance lasted around 90 minutes, and Chung played some of her favorite works. She was also called back on stage for an encore. A Washington Post review of the concert described it as "creating a perfect balance between pure flash and lyric poetry...
...even the highest-velocity conventional rockets. In the case of lasers, which send off beams of highly concentrated light of a single frequency (or color), the speed is that of Light itself, about 186,000 miles per second. That means the beam arrives at its target literally in a flash. If a missile were traveling at, say, six times the speed of sound (4,400 m.p.h. at sea level), it would have moved only nine feet before a laser beam arrived from 1,000 miles away. High-velocity beams of charged particles would be harder to create. Unlike the massless...
...Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman...