Word: flashlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commanders, the Viet Cong stayed around despite their losses. Next night the fighting resumed, in perhaps as weird a contact as either side has made in the war. About 8 p.m. a group of men walked through a U.S. company's command post, one of them with a flashlight in his hand. "Douse that light," snarled a U.S. sergeant major, at the same time noticing that the offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four...
...plant and canceled operations at five other facilities. Laboratories, factories and offices throughout the heavily industrialized region also shut down. Schoolchildren got an unexpected holiday; police and firemen were called in for emergency shifts. At a Wilmington medical center, a 10-lb. 2-oz. boy was born by flashlight...
Approximately five minutes after the first cry of "Fire in the cockpit!"-believed to have come from Chaffee-technicians finally got the escape hatch open. Space Center Fireman James A. Burch grabbed a flashlight and leaned into the charred cabin. "I shined the light completely around inside the capsule," he said, "and I couldn't see anything except burnt wires hanging down. I told the man on the headset, There's no one in there.' He said, 'There has to be. They are still in there. Get them out.'" Burch returned to the cabin, only...
...nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths a weird assortment of wares, ranging from fountain pens and door hinges to toothpaste and flashlight batteries. They are much like the farmers in this rice-rich country who withhold paddy from their only legal purchaser-the government-because there is so little incentive...
...frigid winter is not conducive to street-corner translating. Result: some of the Japanese now photograph promising posters with their Polaroid cameras, then return to the warmth of their offices to translate them. Curious to see the mysterious poster warriors at work, one Japanese correspondent prowled Peking with a flashlight night after night. Although he was very diligent and although the posters were invariably new and fresh the next day, he never managed to catch anyone putting them...