Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice radar is not that simple. A conventional transmitter, sending continuous radar waves, would not do, for the same reason that a man roaring incessantly at a cliff would get back only a confusing noise. To get a clear, time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target...
...Wichita, an airplane-manufacturing center, the Chamber of Commerce also saw red. Kansas' Representative Cliff Hope complained bitterly to OWI's Elmer Davis about his "presumably high-priced author." Said Hope: a fifth-grader would know better...
...ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned by flamethrowers or blasted by grenades and satchel charges...
Charlie moved nearer the dam, firing again & again: He saw four Jap huts half hidden by boulders on a hill across the river. He fired four rounds, demolished four huts. At the very end Charlie Oliver spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired twice and missed both times. That brought his day's score down to 28 hits in 30 shots. When he reached the dam Charlie said that next time he wanted a bazooka with a sight...
...cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...