Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eased himself into the seat. The car clicked into high gear, picked up speed. Suddenly the car glided to a stop; a red lantern waved urgently...
...flour, three eggs for a pound of rice. They live in the farmhouses, where housewives serve their meals, wash their clothes. By day they play soccer with the island men, who are remarkably good and usually beat them. By night they gather in barns with Partisan girls, dance by lantern light to the music of accordions and guitars...
Laden Family Tree. To those who sneer at First Families-a group that includes most of Lev's well-trounced political opponents-a Saltonstall is open game. The family tree is conspicuously laden with riches and dignity. Saltonstalls have been as prominent as their long noses and lantern jaws, as far back as their carefully kept genealogies go-21 generations back, to Thomas de Saltonstall in 1343 in Yorkshire, England...
...Every ship and every plane," says Caldwell, "is in constant touch with the rest of the world by radio - but every railroad train crew is utterly isolated while in motion." To stop another train, trainmen still follow the "archaic practice" of sending a brakeman up the track with a lantern or flag...
Grizzled, stooping, Paris sewer mason André Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...