I just saw you said " mum " instead of " mom ", so that mean's you're likely not American, in which case it may be an " electric torch " instead of a flashlight.
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As men scrambled down the ship's flank away from the shells and machine-gun bullets spitting from the harbour entrance, Crutchley made a final survey with an electric torch looking for wounded men among the dead on the decks.
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Technicians plan to use a high-power electric torch to cut two slots in the feet of the fuel assembly, enabling the bottom of the 1, 500-pound device to be eased free from the floor of Unit 2's reactor vessel.
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She put on a dressing gown and stole back to the schoolroom with an electric torch . " Her bare feet seemed to take charge of her, almost as if they knew the way themselves " ( p . 25 ).
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By the older man's later testimony, he went out himself with an electric torch to look for his daughter, returning at 1 a . m . and going to bed; later he would claim he had spent most of the night looking for her.
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Timekeeping is kept by a pendulum weighing 100 lbs ., which pushes the mechanism round with a force capable of overcoming all normal obstacles, yet it is so delicately powered that it takes only a fraction of the current an ordinary electric torch would consume.
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Sure, just shine a flashlight ( " electric torch " ) through a battery-powered fan ( they sell those for stadiums, etc . ) . ( I'm afraid I don't know what you call an electric fan in the UK, perhaps a " flugglethump " ? ) :-) StuRat 20 : 05, 2 October 2006 ( UTC)
