Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flash Like Lightning. Actress Taylor, mother of Todd's infant daughter, was running a 102° temperature and gave up plans to go with her husband on his flight to New York last weekend. Bound for a Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque...
...plane climbed toward 15,000 feet, Captain Earl Koehler, 36, the plane commander, saw a light flash on his instrument panel. This was a warning and an urgent one: the electrical bomb-locking system was malfunctioning, and in the bomb bay lay an unarmed nuclear bomb...
...toured the great cathedrals of England, France and Germany. Through his friend, Painter Fernand Leger, he met Chartres' famed stained-glass artist, Gabriel Loire, who molded the glass according to Harrison's design. The ruby, amber, amethyst, emerald and sapphire glass sections, roughly chipped to flash like jewels, are laid out to form abstract designs representing the Crucifixion and Resurrection...
...James Douglas signaled the new Minuteman breakthrough when he hustled in to see McElroy, his arms loaded with papers and charts. Douglas asked McElroy for $26 million this year, $230 million next year, to get Minuteman development under way right now and the system itself operational by July 1962. Flash estimate cost of 4,000 Minuteman missiles: $3½ billion. McElroy's decision, taken after consultation with his advisory panel, was to order the Air Force to go ahead-and to brace himself for the ruling that may ultimately have to be made between the Navy's Polaris...
Solid-fuel rockets avoid most of this waste of energy by burning their fuel very fast-in a few seconds, if desirable. Instead of struggling painfully off the ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...