Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remember that false U.P. flash on Japan's surrender? An I.N.S. man here told me it was obvious that that flash was a phony. For example, the flash bore a number, and flashes never bear numbers. And worst of all, the phrasing of the flash was all wrong. The message was a complete sentence. . . . That is not flash language...
...first inning of a four-game series between the rowdy Pittsburgh Pirates and the noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...
...dumfounded at the destruction before me. The center of the city . . . was razed and there was a sweeping view to the foot of the mountains. ... I found my mother safe. She had been weeding grass in a field about two miles southeast of the city when she saw the flash . . . threw herself face down on the ground...
Erroneous Flash...
...think your Press section in TIME [August 20] was unfair to Mutual Broadcasting System. ... By omitting the names of all other networks, it implied that we alone were irresponsible in putting out the erroneous U.P. flash of the Japanese surrender...