Word: traced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night fighting over Britain, once a dark, lonely search for enemies, is now helped by constant radio instructions from ground control rooms where new radio detectors trace in detail the movements of both R.A.F. and enemy planes on sky charts. Other new devices prevent R.A.F. planes from being betrayed in the dark by exhaust flames or red-hot, glowing exhaust pipes...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...
This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...
...cannot yet see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth...
...thought came over me,' Captain Smith told me afterward, 'the bloody bastards are going to sink us without trace...