Word: flashlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply. "I'm going to die anyway." A few hours later, Brigrrte Bardot made an apparently serious-and heavily headlined -attempt to die. In the garden of a friend's pink villa, a vineyard keeper found Brigitte unconscious beside a well. In the beam of his flashlight he saw Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged husband, Cinemactor Jacques...
...pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, weighs less than 2 Ibs. Price...
...transistor grew out of a "parlor trick" in Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device...
...then half the town was after the marshal's hide. Last week they called a meeting and tried to get Earl fired. "He jumps out at cars and starts waving this flashlight at them," said Mrs. Carl Hollowell. "If you were a stranger going through town, would you stop? Then he pulls a gun on you and starts shooting. The other day he was walking down the main street with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun in his hands. I tell you, everybody's life in town is in danger with that man loose...
Curtain Lines. The mayor and the aldermen sided with Earl. He himself scuffled his cowboy boots in the dust, spat through tobacco-stained teeth and stayed on the job. So far he has only collected $9 in fines, but he has no intention of quitting his flashlight-and-pistol technique, or his job. "They threatened to kill me Saturday night," he drawls. "At least three times they've tried to run me over when I was on foot. I'll tell you, the only way I'm going to leave is if the town fires...