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Word: flashlighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finkelstein was walking with Miss Gans on the Concord Avenue side of the Observatory grounds when the three youths stopped them and threatened to strike Finkelstein with a flashlight if he did not hand over his valuables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Held Up; Robbers Throw Senior in Charles | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Stern, stiff-necked Stepfather Fontaine ruled the household pretty much as though it were a department in his store. He imposed all manner of hard rules, including a strict lights-out at 8:15. Livvie had to study in bed, with a flashlight underneath her blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...still prides himself that he can take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Toga recovered, left the cave and returned to Athens, where she was picked up by the police. She blabbed the cave's location and police raided it just as Politis, a short distance away in his truck, was signaling to guerillas there with a flashlight. Arrested, Politis threw himself beneath the wheels of a police car and was packed off to the hospital with a mangled left leg. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Forming behind a depleted band and flashlight-toting Sergeant James Toomey of the University police, early marchers launched the pre-game celebration at 7:15 p.m. in a circuit of the Yard, punctuated at every step by exploding blank cartridges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welkin Rings as Beery Marchers Chant Indian Death Knell in Fiery Eisteddfod | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

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