Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shots at Shadows. The Russians imposed a curfew on Bucharest and a vigorous blackout. After 9 o'clock nobody was allowed on the streets. Russian patrols roamed the city all night long. They were not used to peaceful cities ; they only knew ruined cities in which every shadow might be an enemy. They shot at shadows, even at one another...
Teresa Wright, blue-eyed cinemactress (Casanova Brown, Shadow of a Doubt), and her husband, Niven Busch, Hollywood writer-producer (In Old Chicago, The Westerner), were sued for $15,000 by their cook, who charged that Busch's eleven-year-old son (by a previous marriage) had shot him in the arm because his stepmother "requested the kid to take a pot shot...
...schemes to whisk Belgium's King Leopold, Stalin's son Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...
...voltage-and the higher their speed, the more penetrating are the X rays produced when they collide with the metallic target. Low-voltage or "soft" X rays are sufficient to reveal cavities in teeth or the bones of the hand, because bone absorbs them and thus throws a "shadow" on the photograph. But to reveal gas bubbles or minute flaws in steel armor plate, very "hard" rays are needed, hence a very high voltage in the tube...
...million-volt tube shows up a flaw only .01 inch thick as a clear shadow, even through 16 inches of steel. In penetrating thick steel, the tube is more effective in one hour's exposure than a one-million-volt tube would be in a week, or a half-million-volt tube in an exposure of 500 years...