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Word: flashlighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Anglophobic Colonel McCormick occasionally lapses into Briticisms (torch for flashlight)-a relic of several years in English schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For the Benighted | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...September, they arrived in Yokohama, where a Jap officer struck Zamperini's nose with a flashlight because, when they were transporting him in a sedan, he could not get his long legs under a jump seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Endurance of Lou Zamperini | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Eyebrow tweezers with a small flashlight for a handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Then Phil opened his barracks bag and pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Return of Private Small | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...visitors, TIME Correspondent William W. Johnson and LIFE Photographer George Silk. They told their story-Victoria in perfect American, Grace with a slight accent. Would they pose for a picture? They fussed and primped, tied ribbons in their white hair, prettied their shawls, tidied their pillows, smoothed the bedcover. Flashlight bulbs popped. They blinked and giggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Two Old Ladies | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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