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...those who had debated against the Prime Minister, one was Conservative Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, who said: "In its desire and determination to win the war this Government as a whole is to me a great and shining light, a beam like a searchlight over the horizon, and that is why I shall support it. But when it comes to other matters I am afraid the light does not shine anything like so brightly. Sometimes it is no better than a gas jet, and I am afraid that in their determination not to change any system that we have been...
...side-wheeler Brinckerhoff, veteran of 41 years on the Hudson River, carried the quiet group through the river-damp darkness, across the stream and back. Its searchlight picked out Poughkeepsie's Main Street. Its steel-hooped sides girded against the groaning wooden racks. The Poughkeepsie ferry, tarnation old, almost as old as the nation (it had crisscrossed the Hudson since 1798), had made its last...
...Army searchlight battery set up living quarters in the animation building of Walt Disney's studio (adjoining the Lockheed Aircraft plant), flirted with pretty girls from the inking & painting division at lunchtime...
...over the bridge was the word Willmoto; a signal flag was hoisted also indicating the name Willmoto. No answer to further searchlight signals-second suspicion...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...