Word: flashlights
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...insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked. The three men bailed, shouted for help, signaled with a flashlight. They drifted close under the walls of Sing Sing prison, but no one saw them...
...conferred by gossip columnists on debutantes who haunted Manhattan's night spots, glamor girl is today an occupation, sponsored by pressagents of such eating joints as the Coq Rouge, Stork Club, 21, and publicized by columny. Debutante No. 1 lives in a world startled by the explosion of flashlight bulbs, appears with glamor boys like "Billy" Livingston, Jaro Fabry, Heinrich Orth-Palavicini...
Said he, he was born Samuel Ginsberg in the Polish Ukraine, took the name Krivitsky when he became a Communist in 1919. Lighting one cigaret from another, wincing as cameramen exploded flashlight bulbs, he unfolded in five hours of testimony an extraordinary story of the degeneration of a political party that, as he pictured it, had begun as an ardent movement for remaking the world and had turned into the instrument of an imperialist power. He said that Stalin dictated the policies of the U. S. Communist Party and that Russia financed...
...dining room slid across the floor, women screamed and children began to cry-people were just lighting cigarets, just finishing coffee after dinner, just reaching for something to read-there was heroism, as always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded into lifeboats; there was an eleven-year-old boy who heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there was a Houston girl who, tossed into the water, saw a man beside her "just gasp...
...mechanical ingenuity. Last week, while driving over Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, a highspeed, four-lane artery paralleling the cluttered old Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways. The Connecticut officials, somewhat embarrassed, informed Captain Plugge that the Merritt Parkway reflectors were copies of those in use on the road from Evesham to Worcester, England...