Word: penlight
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...every few steps to make sure no one heard him. He felt carefully along the wall until his hand grasped a familiar object: a doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked. He had once owned a key to the door, but Liddy...
...bigger than a pack of cigarettes, the arsonists' bombs are expertly fashioned from a minuscule penlight battery, a wristwatch, a flashlight bulb and incendiary chemicals (potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate) that can be bought at local drug stores. Often tucked under a pile of fabrics in a crowded store, the minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office...