Word: flashlighted
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...Browne belt, 2) a .38 automatic (with three extra clips of cartridges), 3) an iron-claw in a scabbard, 4) a blackjack, 5) a pair of handcuffs, 6) a "very shiny" gold badge, 7) ("on extra busy nights") a 24-in. police club in one hand and a flashlight in the other. His ushers also spread "a little propaganda" through the neighborhood "regarding how 'tough' the boss is, etc." Result: "the kids have learned who is boss"; "the better patrons" come now because they hear the Mission "is properly operated"; for a year there has been no serious...
Roosevelt. So, for 29 years, Colonel Edmund W. ("Big Bill") Starling has studied second-floor windows, climbed into attics with a flashlight, intently scanned the faces of milling crowds...
...pants anyway. Clothing saves skin on the trip down a rope or a rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...
...Hooked up to this same hand generator is another new signaling device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
...shell rang above us, the battalion commander climbed down into a slit trench and, with a flashlight held over a map, began to explain the situation to his company commanders...