Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglophobic Colonel McCormick occasionally lapses into Briticisms (torch for flashlight)-a relic of several years in English schools...
Over WGN (for World's Greatest Newspaper) and 135 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Colonel had some helpful hints to little girls. Said he: "Every Girl Scout should carry a compass, a watch and an electric torch.* The torch is a precaution against becoming benighted. . . . The military compass, by the way, has an interesting story. In the South African...
...Important Things. For six long years the news had come from overseas. In war-jammed cities the important things of existence had been steel shavings coiling from a machine tool, the glare of a welding torch, the sound of riveting gun and typewriter, the brain fag and weariness of overwork. But now the U.S. experienced the quiet clarity of eye and mind which comes after a long fever...
...political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...
Outside the tangled wreckage, a sailor from a forward car held his baby in his arms, clawed wildly at acetylene-torch crews cutting into the mangled steel. Just before the crash, his wife had entered the observation...