Word: pickaback
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Where from? The alert defenders of southern England quickly found out. The Germans were mounting the robots pickaback on old Heinkels and other obsolete bombers, whose pilots took off from bases in north Holland and Germany, launched the robots at sea, at night. British night fighters, guided from radar stations on the ground, went to work against both bombers and robots, and not many of the missiles got through. It was a feeble echo of last summer's terror; but last week the attacks increased and the flow of evacuees back to London slowed down...
...Allied Commander went beyond enemy positions by land and air. The first time his jeep skirted an isolated pocket of German resistance on the western side of the Cherbourg peninsula. Later he visited a Ninth Air Force field and jumped at the chance to go across the line, riding pickaback in a specially converted PSI Mustang, with dashing Major General "Pete" Quesada as pilot...
...thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...
...dreams, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, Polar explorer, saw a 37-ton Jules Verne monster sidling over ice crevasses, carrying an airplane pickaback, and accommodating in its insides everything four explorers would need for a twelve-month tour of the Antarctic...
...pity the young man obliged. Where upon the pickaback hitchhiker turned into an evil jinni, clamped naked, hairy thighs around the young man's neck forever after...