Word: doppler
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...does he ever realize the vengeful anger his part demands. An incongruous airiness in Dawson's voice and the stiffness of his movements force Allinson to provide all the game's vitality, but it is difficult for him to do it all alone. Similarly Philip Farrar's Detective Doppler is lugubrious and meticulous without being convincing...
With pun and allusion Nabokov turns words themselves transparent, making meanings flicker through each other. In the light of a bit of high school physics, watch what happens to the sentence: "An electric sign, DOPPLER, shifted to violet through the half drawn curtains..." Several pages later, a woman standing by the same window "wore a Doppler shift over her luminous body...
...wonder what our American P.O.W.s still being held in North Viet Nam think about this "Doppler war" that "recedes" into the past [Dec. 6]. This will be my husband's seventh Christmas as a P.O.W. If all the men being held were sons of our esteemed Congressmen, I wonder if my man would be experiencing the Doppler effect at home this Christmas. I guess you could call this my Christmas wonder...
...seems reversed as the U.S. fades out of the war. No one is ready to declare the war over for Americans while they are still dying in it. But the war that came without declaration is also ending-for the U.S. at least-gradually, again without formalities, like the Doppler effect, as some great baleful engine screams by and then recedes...
Determining the other coordinate is a more complicated matter of listening for a so-called Doppler shift in frequency. If the echo comes from the side of the planet spinning toward Earth, it will rise in frequency, just as the whistle of an approaching train seems to move up in pitch. If the reflection comes from the side rotating away from Earth, it will go down in frequency...