Word: flashlights
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...nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed to buy there. Instead, they turn to the streets, where peddlers spread out on dingy cloths a weird assortment of wares, ranging from fountain pens and door hinges to toothpaste and flashlight batteries. They are much like the farmers in this rice-rich country who withhold paddy from their only legal purchaser-the government-because there is so little incentive...
...frigid winter is not conducive to street-corner translating. Result: some of the Japanese now photograph promising posters with their Polaroid cameras, then return to the warmth of their offices to translate them. Curious to see the mysterious poster warriors at work, one Japanese correspondent prowled Peking with a flashlight night after night. Although he was very diligent and although the posters were invariably new and fresh the next day, he never managed to catch anyone putting them...
...Foil & Flashlights. Gold and silver pantyleg stockings (at $4 each) are selling so fast stores can't keep them in stock. Paper silver-foil dresses, priced at $7 and $10, are even more popular in small towns than they are in the big cities. Luminescent gigantism in earrings has reached the stage where girls are turning themselves into Yule trees, dangling oversize baubles, including some with flashlight batteries that turn on and off. There is hardly a hostess going who is not somewhere aglow or aglitter...
...tight place can pull your sweatshirt up over your head, and then your chest gets painted with mud. To protect your head you wear a miner's hard hat with a carbide light. In your pockets are stuffed a bottle of water, a spare bottle of carbide, a flashlight, matches, and a candle...
...moaning. Mrs. Percy leaped out of bed and followed the sound down the hallway to Valerie's room. Inside, she saw a shadowy figure bent over Valerie's bed. The intruder instantly straightened up, whirled about and transfixed Loraine Percy in the blinding glare of a powerful flashlight. Screaming, she ran back to the master bedroom, where she punched a wall button that set off a rooftop burglar-alarm siren...