Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese radio, devious by habit and well coached by the Nazis, could boast several propaganda exploits. It cut in on the Far Eastern beam of California's KGEI to give phony "flashes" on the "bombing" of San Francisco. It presented an American "Lady Haw-Haw" to inform America of the "annihilation" of the U.S. fleet. Last week it fished for U.S. listeners by promising to announce the names of prisoners "as soon as they are available" -i.e., in driblets, to keep the audience tuned...
...about the tube 400,000 times, accelerated at each rotation by small 70-volt kicks whose cumulative push gives the particle an energy of 20,000,000 volts within a fraction of a second. These fiercely energized electrons are then either: 1) Released continuously from the tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which are one of the three types of radiation naturally given off by radium; or 2) Directed at a metal target, battering from it X-rays which are much more penetrating than radium's gamma rays. The betatron can produce...
Cecil Brown parted reluctantly from a brand-new pair of shoes, jumped into the oily water and swam hard to avoid the down-draught of the huge vessel as she turned on her beam ends, lifted her ugly stern underparts, and sank. From the water he saw the Wales, torpedoed and afire, slowly go down...
...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
Airline radio beams were also cut off, lest Japanese planes follow them to airports or Army fields. In Seattle the Army Air Forces allowed United Air Lines to use its beam for ten minutes, long enough to get out of town with Fiorello LaGuardia. A few stations in the coast area were used by the Army for 15 to 45-second flashes. But at week's end uninterrupted daily broadcasting was restored to most stations -subject to quelling on five minutes' notice...