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Word: flashlamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling walls every foot of the way. At 11 p.m., Benny's hand quivered in the light of a flashlamp trained down the well. It was his last movement. Dried out by the hissing oxygen, fine salt sand drifted softly over the child's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SMALL BOY DOWN A WELL: MANORVILLE SAVES BENNY | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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