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Word: flashlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...lieutenant slugged Pang with his flashlight, then pistol-whipped him with a .45. Pang slumped to the floor, senseless. Rushed by a jeep to a Marine sick bay, then by helicopter to a hospital ship, Pang Wha II died four days later without regaining consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Death of a Preacher | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...woman thought her visitors were public-health inspectors, pointed to a malodorous closet, exclaimed, "The proprietor's got a bathroom all in marble." In the growing darkness, Baudouin lit his way with a flashlight. Boys ran ahead of him calling, "The King is coming." In one crumbling house, when the King wanted to go upstairs, the residents were aghast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Education of a King | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...White's where the Yule's hoary harbinger is secreted between the ice-box and negligee department, the small, ominously green sign reads. "You are required to buy pays your money, yen gets no choice a eat in the lap, a flashlight bulb, and "How many prints d'ya want lady?" "I wanna sled," says the kid. "Next," bawls Santa...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Toyland | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

There is a "flying-saucer gun" which shoots whirling plastic disks high in the air ($1); a noiseless "space ray gun" of plastic molded around a flashlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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