Word: flashlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside historic Petersburg some 800 hog-dirty, dog-tired soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 8th Quartermaster Training Regiment were sleeping soundly. A soft north-northeast breeze fanned the damp air; the lonely flashlight of a patrolling officer threaded the dark Virginia night; somewhere a mongrel pup howled plaintively. Suddenly came the long, heart-chilling shriek of dive-bombers, the rattle of machine guns, the dull, stomach-curdling thud of high explosives. Over the camp rolled clouds of black, evil-smelling smoke. Up went a cry: "Gas! Gas! Gaaaasss!" Out of their tiny olive-green tents tumbled soldiers, stuffing heads into...
...improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker did not respond...
Died. George Shiras, III, 83, naturalist, "father of wild life photography"; in Marquette, Mich. He discovered a successful method of taking flashlight pictures of wild animals, for more than half a century photographed them in wildernesses from Hudson Bay to Mexico...
Stanley Joseph Modzelewski, who plays pivot on Rhode Island State's basketball team, has for four years averaged 21 points a game. Last week, during a game with Holy Cross, Modzelewski scored 16 points; then, every time he tried to shoot, he was blinded by flashlight bulbs. Nevertheless, he finally sank one from the foul line and the shot the cameramen were after was recorded: Modzelewski scoring his 1,597th point in four years of college basketball. It cracked the all-time record* set by Stanford's Hank Luisetti four years...
...Newcastle, Ind., a woman reported to police the loss of her purse, containing: two watches, four rings, two automatic pencils, one fountain pen, several pins, a social-security card, a driver's license, two books, an American flag, one pearl-handled knife, one sliding-blade knife, one flashlight...