Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest convenience is an artificial "moon," of amber and green shaded lights, that perches on a tall pole in the rear of the parking area, enabling patrons to grope their way to comfort stations and move their cars about without smashing fenders...
Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...
Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
Lost in the Dark. When the coastal blackout went into effect in April 1942, no one was forced to grope as much as Doug Leigh. Starting with $50 and a case of mumps at the depth of the depression, he had parlayed his native talents of salesmanship, showmanship and inventiveness into an electrified million-dollar business. He owned or operated the biggest single block of the dazzling and ingeniously animated signs along Broadway, when the lights were turned...
...Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope his way through international problems without guidance...