Word: flashings
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When the far-flown volunteers were asked to punch a telegraph key on seeing a light flash, their reaction times were almost twice as long as at home. Internal body temperature took at least four days to shift to the new day-night cycle. Heart rate and water loss through perspiration took still longer...
First-Night Feeling. His secret is neither the fire of genius nor the flash of inspiration. Others may be more daring and original; they have streaked like comets across the screen and disappeared. Schaefer has lasted for 13 years and may go on for 13 more. For in a medium run by networks and advertising agencies, he has something more potent than mere brilliance: organization...
...prehistoric man, everything he saw probably seemed alive; death was the unthinkable anomaly. The situation is reversed in a scientifically oriented world; amid dead matter, life seems an unaccountable, brief flash in the interstellar dark. Not that this has destroyed the power of faith to confront death. Beyond the doubts of its own "demythologers," and on a plane of thought beyond either denial or confirmation by science, Christianity still offers the hope of eternal life. Theologians are debating whether this means immortality in the sense of the survival of the soul, or resurrection, in the sense of a new creation...
...town's N.A.A.C.P. chapter was cruelly maimed by a booby-trap bomb wired to his automobile accelerator, Natchez Negroes could no longer contain their anger. Week by week, as bitter anti-Klan demonstrations have expanded to protest other longstanding Negro grievances, Natchez has inched toward the flash point...
...weeks ago, a band of leftist students started demonstrating outside the National Palace, taunting loyalist Dominican army guards. With anger and bitterness all around, one soldier shot an 18-year-old in the back, killing him instantly. That led to a series of flash-fire fights between rebels and loyalists resulting m four dead, 14 wounded. Last week the city rumbled with bomb blasts five in all, damaging a bar popular with U.S. troops, the plant of a noisily antimilitary magazine, and a drive-in movie Death toll: another two Dominicans...