11.   As Gelernter tore open the end of the package, a hiss of smoke spewed out, followed by the blinding flash of an explosion.

12.   A cannon charge detonates with a blinding flash and cloud of smoke.

13.   A blinding flash of light was followed by a tremendous boom.

14.   A fuse connected to dozens of firecrackers was lighted, exploding the paper doll into a blinding flash of white light and smoke as the crowd cheered.

15.   Chaitram Singh, a Kaltech Industries employee who was in the basement when the explosion went off, remembered little except a blinding flash and an overwhelming force.

16.   During the raid, Jensen discharged a small explosive, called a flash-bang, which disorients suspects with a blinding flash of light and thunderous bang.

17.   During World War II, his strobes were used for aerial reconnaissance, and after the war, he helped photograph and analyze the blinding flash of atom bombs.

18.   ESPN viewers might remember the blinding flashes that looked more like the sun reflecting off a car windshield.

19.   Eventually the charges reunite with a blinding flash.

20.   His nine previous bombing missions had been uneventful, but this time, while his four-engine bomber was over the Netherlands, there was a blinding flash.