Word: searchlights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the bridge was the word Willmoto; a signal flag was hoisted also indicating the name Willmoto. No answer to further searchlight signals-second suspicion...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...
...Turkish Army searchlight, poking its white eye into the garden of the German Embassy one night last week, disclosed a daughter of German Ambassador Franz von Papen in the arms of a secretary of the Italian Embassy. Next day Ambassador von Papen, who had been watching the searchlight practice for professional reasons, packed his daughter off to Berlin, had her lover sacked...
...then, as the eight took a brisk workout down to the Riverside Boat Club, his method of handling an eight became vividly evident. As Bolles turned his interest from one part of the shell to another, he used one part of the shell it another, he used the searchlight with which his coaching launch is equipped to advantage, stopping at one man for a moment, moving on to another, sweeping back to the rudder post to see what "check" the shell was developing, and then back again to the eight be-sweatered sweepswingers...
...starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...