Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast; by the time the jamming station catches up to it, it may be on the move again. Furthermore, BBC's European Service at the end of its 16-hour day of broadcasts in 24 languages slowly taps out the news in Morse code (almost jam-proof). Bootleg "freedom" stations leap from one frequency to another, when, where and how they please. They often spend a 15-minute news period repeating four sentences over & over again, confident that if listeners catch an occasional word they will be able to piece the message together like a jigsaw puzzle...
...forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional offices...
...Tennessee squirrel hunter found a woman operating a bootleg still...
Author Ormsbee loves life in the raw. As a youth, his hero tore around in a flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
...before being commissioned as officers in any branch of the armed forces will be trained at the Harvard Business School, proudly announced "The Business School Bugle," a bootleg, burlesque paper which Friday leaped into lurid prominence in the world across the Charles...