Word: flashlight
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...disaster for the industry, coming as it did in the midst of the crucial "market week" for next winter's holiday and resort wear. But the tenacious and long-beleaguered garment-makers treated the blackout as just one more obstacle to be overcome. Manufacturers moved goods by flashlight and held showings in rented rooms. Loyal buyers unable to place orders booked return visits. Even the garment workers union helped out by allowing employees to put in an extra hour a day without charging overtime...
...those that refer to nonedible items. Says Duane Rumbaugh: "Apes have the capacity to use symbols that represent things not present in time and space-the essence of semantics, in human parlance." The chimps also have demonstrated self-awareness. One, while watching itself on a television monitor, directed a flashlight beam into its mouth, apparently curious about what its throat looked like...
About 10 off-duty white officers, wearing jeans and t-shirts, terrorized the Black inhabitants of a hotel after an election night party. Brandishing a Confederate flag and a skull-and-crossbones flag, they shouted racial epithets, gashed one resident with a flashlight, knocked someone's teeth out, and threw a third person down a flight of stairs. After a year-long investigation, seven policemen were dismissed from the force and six were suspended without...
...with a silver cross. Her route takes her through mounds of fetid garbage, rotting produce and broken glass. The tiny figure wards off snarling dogs in the darkness with a dart of light from a battered flashlight...
...likes going out in "those reflecting clothes which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...