Word: flash
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Surrounding the ruby rod is a spiral flash tube rather like the tube of a photographer's strobe lamp. When a pulse of electricity passes through the tube, it gives a powerful burst of white (mixed) light, some of which strikes into the ruby rod. Certain wave lengths are absorbed by the chromium atoms, raising them momentarily to very high energy levels. They drop back down almost immediately, but instead of falling all the way, they accumulate at a level that still contains considerable energy. After the light flash has shone on the ruby rod for a few millionths...
...Pickup. Most klaxoners, known by such names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages...
...loyally sticks to the same, starting lineup. Says Pirates' General Manager Joe L. Brown, son of the chasm-mouthed comedian: "Dan never pushes the panic button." With little raw power in his lineup, Murtaugh has revived an oldfashioned, single-slapping brand of baseball, leniently lets his players flash the sign for the hit-and-run whenever they see a chance. "Murtaugh lets us use our own judgment," says Hoak, "until it proves to be bad judgment. For instance, this guy Ashburn on the Cubs gives me fits. I play him close to the line and he hits through...
...just 18 months old when his family moved to an all-Negro district of Dallas. There Rafer spent his early years in a bitter little world of segregation, discrimination and poverty. "I don't care if I never see Texas again." Johnson says, with a rare flash of anger. "There's nothing about it I like. If my family had stayed in Texas. I not only wouldn't be representing the U.S. in the Olympic Games-I wouldn't even have gone to college...
Married. Jimmy Boyd, 20, the freckled Tin Pan Alley flash of 1952, who sold more than 2,200,000 raspy records of 1 Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, has been an occasional TV and film actor since; and Yvonne Craig, 22, a rising cinemactress who recently completed High Time with Bing Crosby; in Dallas...