Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question had peeled the blanket of official silence off a complex and dangerous problem. Almost everyone in Britain had heard at least one eyewitness story such...
...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...number of stations, beamed to Axis and neutral nations, are said to have innocently hired foreign-language announcers who had slyly angled scripts into Axis meanings. Also, private operators like to beam their stations to the most thickly populated areas, while the OWI wants to spread a worldwide blanket evenly. Emergency funds should cover leasing of the 14 existing stations. Another need: Official propaganda directives. But OWI brains are seething with a ferment of heady plans...
...Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change of guards. A favorite discipline forced them to sit, with heads bowed, as long as eight hours at a stretch, facing Tokyo. They...
Charged Denman: 1) From 50,000 to 100,000 people might perish in an enemy-set fare engulfing San Francisco's wooden structures, with the prevailing west wind; 2) the heavy inbound blanket of summer fog invites a Jap attack; 3) telltale water outlines make an efficacious blackout impossible; 4) the fire department could not cope with incendiary bombs; 5) the military had discouraged a systematic tryout of the city's air raid sirens...