Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Signed with the call letters of the 16,698-ton New Zealand freighter Rangitiki, just after noon one day last week, this ominous radio flash was followed after 99 minutes by one from the 4,952-ton British freighter Cornish City...
...Bucharest blackout was suddenly illuminated by the blinding flash of blue light which accompanies the first wave of an earthquake. Then came a series of violent shocks accompanied by the ripping, crashing noise of falling buildings and the screams of people. In five minutes more damage was caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that...
Like many press-association dispatches, Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
...their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from a second torpedo boat as the Ajax's shells reached her vitals. The vessel disintegrated...
Amid a burst of flash bulbs at Hollywood's airport, hard-polished blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett embarked on a plane for Reno to divorce Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Gloria Swanson's and her third husband. She gave a farewell kiss to a squinting young man-her eleven-year-old adopted son Peter...