Word: foil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest single University laboratory was the Radio Research Lab, set up in March 1942 in a wing of the Biology Building. Directed by F. E. Terman, now Dean of the Engineering School at Stanford University, the lab turned out 150 devices, including aluminum foil "window," and "carpet," to confound enemy radar. Its developments were credited with saving 450 American bombers and 4,500 lives...
...Whenever the avarice or the ambition of Russia or Great Britain shall tempt them to make the prizes, the fate of Asia will be sealed, and the future Chinese relations of the United States may be considered as closed for the ages, unless now the United States shall foil the untoward result by adopting a sound policy. It is my opinion that the highest interests of the United States are involved in sustaining China . . . rather than see China become the theater of widespread anarchy, and ultimately the prey of European ambitions...
...death. But she is incurious about the odd fact that, until he was King, David was capable of begetting only one child, and that by an adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David...
...Hitler Jugend uniform, proudly presented the Doktor with a bunch of forget-me-nots. Big Brother Joachim joined the Hitler Jugend at ten and became a Grup-penführer before entering the Wehrmacht. Sister Ursula served in the girls' branch of the Hitler Youth, collecting tin foil, warm clothes for soldiers on the eastern front and funds for winter relief...
Tinsel Snow on Europe. Another effective countermeasure was "Window": strips of aluminum foil tossed into the air from planes. Two ounces of it looked to enemy radar like an entire bomber. The British first used Window during the 1943 raids on Hamburg. Cried the Nazi gunners, as swarming puffs of Window spotted their radar scopes: "The planes are doubling themselves...