Word: flashlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, as he vomited gasoline and seawater, the monstrous form of a battleship bore down on him. He had managed to get his waterproof flashlight in hand. He pressed the button, waved the light overhead. The battle wagon swept past...
Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I.s' mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...
...point up a reason for all this caution, the Senate's Mead Committee last week came up with a first-rate example of the enormous profits which private speculators might make in surpluses. The Army decided to sell 22,000,000 flashlight batteries-for which it had paid 7½? each-for 4? apiece, although the ceiling price on such batteries is 10?. Thus, buyers might clean up as much as $1,000,000 by reselling the batteries. When the Senate Committee stepped in, the Treasury hastily canceled the sale...
...Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming...
...housewives' butter slicer run by a flashlight battery...