Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carey's argumentation throughout is utterly sound; and on only a couple of extremely minute points would I care to disagree with him. There is no one who could not derive much profit from a careful perusal of this pocket-sized but capacious volume. (There is, in the above remarks, a glaring error in punctuation. Did you notice...
...midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...change in frequency of radio waves reflected from moving objects. When set up on the front line, Tipsy 25 is trained toward the direction of probable enemy approach. It covers an angle of about 30°, and if anything is moving there, the operator hears a crackling sound like radio static. He then narrows his beam and focuses on the suspected object. When he pinpoints it. he hears a characteristic sound, which is simultaneously displayed as a wave pattern on an oscilloscope...
...vehicle (tank, jeep or train) twelve miles away is easy to identify. A tank sounds very much like the clanking of its tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking...
...crawling man does not usually move as fast as 1 m.p.h., the lowest speed that Tipsy 25 detects, but movements of his arms and legs exceed the speed limit. So they give a characteristic sound and warn the radar sentry that in the darkness somewhere two miles away, someone is crawling who presumably means no good...