Word: jammed
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Counter-radar attacked radar's fundamental weakness. The waves radar sends out must be reflected from a target before the target can be spotted. These reflected waves are so feeble that a weak or distant transmitter on the same frequency can "jam" them out. Counter-radar is a variety of jamming...
...Germans were not without their own radar countermeasures. They jammed American radar badly at the Anzio beach-head, and it was German jamming that enabled the Seharnhorst and Gneisnau to escape through the English Channel, by blocking out British radar along the whole Channel coast. After these early successes, however, the Germans and Japanese never again succeeded in seriously jamming Allied radar, because our radar was adapted to much higher frequencies -- microwaves -- which are much harder to jam...
...looked black. Republican leaders stuck by a recent report from their Food Study Committee, which recommended that 1) all future UNRRA appropriations be viewed with "jaundiced eyes," 2) all appropriations be subject to the free press provision. Then one farseeing Republican rose in an attempt to break the log jam...
...grill, over their "peanut betweens" and "Garbo with jams" (English muffins with jam), Exonians last week had two distressing subjects to chew over. They had just lost, 7-to-18, the Big Game with rival Andover, 28 miles away. And their headmaster, tweedy, well-loved Lewis Perry, 68, who had long talked of quitting, had now made it official...
London: Scheduling story for Music on first London jam session. Did band and audience stop for teatime intermission...