Word: searchlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the searchlight was turned on Harvard's wage scale for scrubwomen, such well-known liberals as Heywood Broun and innumerable people less well-known voiced amazement at the University's stinginess. Even the CRIMSON had something to say about Harvard's ponnypinching attitude...
...rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes at nightfall while a searchlight sweeps the grated windows; there are three rebels left and only two bullets. Hope has long since gone. Even the shooting of the warden had been an act not so much of hope as of protest against a life in which such a steely, stifling enigma as the Death House...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...