Word: flashly
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...such moments are few, brief as flash bulbs, and continually let down by carelessness, conventionality, lack of imagination, lack of insight into faces, minds, motions. Some characteristic letdowns...
...three day goings-on in Room 318 of the Senate Office Building sounded like a radio script. There was even a flurry of anger and a flash of fists when the government's Robert M. Hunter remarked on the last weary day that of six Standard witnesses he would take the word of only one. Standard's vice president Robert T. Haslam (one of the doubted) personally objected, offered to meet Mr. Hunter "outside...
...city room of the Chicago Tribune was tense. In the smoke-coated old Federal Building a mile away in the Loop a Tribune man waited for the flash. Then it came. U.S. District Attorney J. Albert Woll handed reporters a statement by Special Prosecutor William D. Mitchell...
...rain drizzles through the bamboo bars on us. Major Del Bailey, flight leader, says: "I'll go up and look around. If it's clear I'll flash on one navigation light. . . ."I climb into the bomber with him. Above, we find a clearer spot in a squall and flash on one light. Up after us come the rest of the bombers and peashooters [fighters]. As dawn breaks we are off for Canton...
...Harrovian had been trying to put a good face on things with a bit of guff, he had been ingenuous. The left-wing Tribune screamed bloody murder: "The best people stood by us. What the common herd did doesn't matter. British imperial rule defined in a flash!" Sir Reginald thereupon edited his remarks. Only 4,000 of Burma's 15,000,000 people had actively helped the Japs, said he; they were extremists of the nationalist Thakin Party...