Word: torchlit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble started when a singing, torchlit parade the night before Yale's encounter with Cornell strayed from the planned line of march and flooded the streets of the town...
Bright-painted vivas flecked the white walls of Santiago. Banners shouted bienvenida (welcome). From Santiago's Los Cerrillos airport to the Plaza Constitution, palm fronds and the hammer-&-sickle festooned the streets. All day and far into the torchlit night, 8,000 cheering Chilean Communists gave the first Soviet diplomat in Chilean history a pointedly ideological welcome...
...Nazis could not do enough for Hangman Reinhard Heydrich. His bomb-gutted body was borne through torchlit streets; it lay in state in gabled Prague Castle. Four Black Shirts stood as a guard of honor at each of the four corners of a coffin scarred by a huge swastika. In courtyards and alleyways the volleys of retributory gunfire were like the spitting of angry cats. At each spatter another Czech fell. In ten days the Germans admitted 216 Czechs shot. But that was not good enough...
...from sheer love of beauty, for the pictures are often so superimposed, retouched and crowded as to be quite unesthetic. His motive was religious. The cavern murals are a form of sympathetic magic: depicting an animal gave the hunter power over it, made the kill easier. In the eerie, torchlit, painted chambers, professional sorcerers led the hunters in ceremonial dances before the chase. Sometimes they hurled their spears at the painted beasts or pictured in the paintings arrows, darts and traps to intensify the magic...
...peewee French officer, Rouget, in one chanceful, inspired evening composed The Marseillaise, which rang through the torchlit streets of Revolutionary France. But soon he became a counterRevolutionary, escaped with his life to live 40 dismal years...