Word: torchlighters
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...bricklayer who came over from County Cork, was a local political power. For 35 years he was head of the city's water system, with 1,700 men on his payroll and access to hundreds of other jobs. When O'Neill was a boy, torchlight parades still surged through the narrow streets of Cambridge, and candidates shouted their speeches on street corners. In 1928, already a veteran campaign worker at the age of 15, O'Neill hustled out trustworthy Democratic voters in a losing effort to elect Al Smith President...
...slim jetliner was trying to land at night in heavy rain at Sheremetyevo Airport, 18 miles northwest of Moscow, and by some accounts was making its fourth pass at the runway. Villagers in the nearby hamlet of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) suddenly heard a series of explosions. Tramping by torchlight across muddy potato fields, they found the red and silver tail of the Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 sticking out of a cold brown pond. Beneath the water, or on the fields across which the plane had skidded, were the bodies of all the passengers and crew. Unofficial reports indicated that they...
Bonfires, a Viking signal that enemy invaders were sailing up the fjords, burned on many coastal hilltops; legions of doorbell ringers, street-corner campaigners and letter writers turned out in the cities and, as the election approached, torchlight parades and mass public debates filled Oslo's leafy city center...
...Mansholt, Dutch author of the Mansholt Plan to halve the number of Europe's agricultural workers by 1980). While the ceremonies were going on in Brussels, Dublin demonstrators read out a declaration of allegiance to the 1916 proclamation of the Irish Republic. In Oslo, anti-Marketeers staged a torchlight parade through the city's snow-covered streets and almost mobbed Bratteli at the airport as he left for Brussels. And in Brussels itself, 50 Britons demonstrated against the Market, with signs reading NON, NEIN...
They marched in a torchlight procession to the construction site, smashed the windows of construction trailers with rocks, blocked traffic on the expressway and threatened to set fire to construction facilities. Shouted one demonstrator: "If this was Harlem, these trailers would have been burned long ago!" Police called for help as the mob threatened to get out of control, and some 20 officers restored order...