Word: flashlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bewilderment etched the weary, unshaven faces of the airport volunteers, whose bloodshot eyes seemed to brim with tears. Workers formed a human chain in the pouring rain to unload the plane's cargo of pain-killers, penicillin, iodine swabs and bandages donated by American companies. They worked by flashlight well into the night. A young man took me aside and whispered, "Be sure to tell everyone in America and Europe how thankful...
Checking By Flashlight...
...workers at Hilles, some of whom did their work by flashlight, were about to have the night off when the power returned, and Hilles and Lamont Librarian Heather E. Cole announced, "we are going to stay open, it's reading period...
...book-checker Richard Lamacchia put back his flashlight and opened up the library doors. Hilles had its usual closing hour...
...Honda pass again. Minimum 40 m.p.h., maximum 65 m.p.h. most of the way. Spend the night in a motel sprawled in the wasteland of an interchange construction site, the cavernous lobby enclosing a bleakly misplaced chandelier, as a cave might contain a waterfall briefly sparkling in a flashlight's beam. The room is nasty, a shivering 52 degrees F as the air conditioner roars, its Off button broken. In a pancake house, tired women, Laverne and Rosalie according to their name tags, who have spent a lifetime on their feet, shuffle up to offer waffles with whipped cream fresh from...