Word: flashly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...flash flood also turned nearby Pipe Creek into a torrent, damaging 50 buildings. Half of one house was found lodged in a bridge, 20 ft. above the receding water. As a dazed man looked for his home, a searcher observed, "He doesn't know his family is dead." No one was certain how many of the 52 people listed as missing might have survived. But by week's end 18 bodies had been found...
...does not even swing. On more than 60% of all pitches, his bat does not touch the ball. The result is a lot more whiffs now than in the old days. Last year batters earned 3% more bases on balls than in 1930, but struck out 75% more often. Flash, not finesse, is the hallmark of modern, macho baseball, where a slugger would rather corkscrew himself into the batter's box on a swinging third strike than ground out meekly to the shortstop. This all-or-nothing attitude is catnip to Ryan, whose fast ball ! still approaches stock-car speeds...
Allison and his fellow curators have wisely refrained from predicting the future, focusing instead on the discoveries that have brought humanity to its present juncture. Perhaps, though, one of the many schoolchildren visiting the exhibit will look with fresh eyes at its displays and have the flash of intuition that holds the key to the next technological revolution...
...while some CCA-backed councillors acknowledge that their first five months have not seen the type of drama that was the hallmark of their predecessors, they say that their accomplishments have more substance and less flash...
...issues. Cables flew between Washington and Moscow. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had an acrimonious exchange at the Malta summit on Dec. 2. The growing superpower cooperation that seemed to mark the end of the cold war was fraying. But on the morning of Dec. 7, Moscow sent a flash message to the Vladimir Ilyich: "Return immediately to Leningrad...