Word: hid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During most of the peacetime years Harris was on staff duty in London, rising steadily in the clannish, highly selective "permanent force" of the R.A.F. In these years, and after World War II began, he never hid his views on the potentialities of air power and the stupidities of the older services. He was fond of saying that all the Army wanted in the way of airplanes was something which would eat oats and make noises like a horse. More recently, he has said that the only role of land forces in Europe will be to occupy the Continent after...
Engineers John H. Payne and Harold H. Beverage (now of General Electric and RCA respectively) rigged up the equipment. President Wilson's advisers insisted that the microphone be concealed: they were afraid it would make the President nervous. The engineers therefore hid the device in a cluster of flags...
...gardens of taro and kaukau (something like yams). When they could, they killed game like cassowary or ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...
...crew were killed in the crash. The other six, wounded, made their way to New Britain's coast. Their chief worry was capture. Sometimes they were so close to Jap troops, said 2nd Lieut. Marvin Hughes of Baird, Tex., "we could have whistled at them." Once they hid on one side of a narrow stream and watched Japs eating breakfast on the other side. Two of the six were finally captured. Another died...
Sound War. When the blitz began, sound recording became an effective claymore against rumor. Censorship hid the facts of Liverpool's first severe bombing, and word of mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...