Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...
Sole Life Line. The free counsel is also serious medicine. Radio constantly fingers patients who need hospitalization, gets doctors out fast to the bush by plane. Alerted by radio last month, Fairbanks' Dr. Jean Persons, a minister's thirtyish daughter who has braved many a stormy night flight, rushed to a man who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chin. She landed in time to stop the blood, took him back for plastic surgery...
...from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio Chorus for the taxing job of staying on pitch while unaccompanied, Conductor Robert Craft rehearsed the group more than 20 times...
...radio signals from the first balloon were not picked up because the airplane's receiver was not working properly, but a second balloon dropped into the same storm made itself heard. As Helene moved relentlessly toward the Carolina coast, directional radios tuned to its thin voice could locate accurately the eye's ever-shifting position...
...flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...