Word: ferreter
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...first step in dealing with enemy radar is to locate it and determine its wavelength or frequency. This reconnaissance is done by "ferret" planes, specially equipped with electronic "search receivers," which pick up and locate operating enemy radar like stations on a home radio...
...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...
...raid had multiple purposes: to ferret out illegal material such as weapons, ammunition, radio transmitters, U.S. uniforms and rations, gasoline; to catch Nazis; to turn up U.S. AWOLs (only a handful); to inhibit black-market operations. A secondary purpose was to test the occupation army's security machinery. It tested very well. Orders for the raid (Codeword: "Tallyho") were distributed three weeks in advance. There were no leaks...
...ferret-eyed Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard's hopabout journalist who rarely stays in any one country long enough for a second breath, or a second thought. Within 48 hours of reaching Chungking, he had seen Chiang Kai-shek and was breathlessly cabling home: "Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in an exclusive interview today, promised to ease Chinese censorship regulations on news going to the United States. ... I told him that there was increasing uneasiness in America because of the tight censorship. . . . Chiang said he welcomed such a frank complaint...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...