Word: flashlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designers of women's clothes, always eager to ride a trend, worked their imaginations overtime. Sally Victor created a fireproof glass-and-asbestos hat, padded inside against cold and bumps, with a flashlight in the brim. Warborn was a handbag containing a bottle of luminous paint and a flap on which messages could be written...
...order to make sure of whom he was coaching, Bolles had to reach into his pocket to produce a list of boatings, which he read by flashlight before going further with his instructions...
Fighting for his infant life in a mechanical respirator, two-year-old Herbert Schneider gasped and almost died. Rushed to the hospital after a traffic accident, Bart Solomon was operated on by candlelight and flashlight. By the same emergency lighting physicians delivered one baby naturally, another by Caesarean section. Storage plants, home electrical appliances, elevators, radio sets all went dead. Set off by the breakage in current, burglar alarms all over the city began to ring. The sirens of police patrol cars added to the weird racket...
...flashlight beam swung around the room onto the pale faces. No one was crying out. No one was fainting...
...made a simple challenge: let the Legislature investigate itself. He would appear, testify under oath, bring witnesses, produce evidence. Hay, reading his notes by a flashlight held by his niece, Mary Hay, attacked "sandbag" bills...