Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Park one sultry evening last week, a pasty-faced young Briton kept an appointment with Pavel Kuznetsov, ferret-faced second secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Britain. The young fellow was William Martin Marshall, 24, a $21-a-week radio operator employed by the Foreign Office to transmit clear and coded messages to British missions abroad. Once a clerk in Britain's Moscow Embassy, he had been meeting Communist Kuznetsov clandestinely for several months...
...concealment rocks, bags of offal and vicious, steel-reinforced bamboo spears. They surged toward thin cordons of police. In the first wave marched spear-and club-wielders. Behind them, in the classic tactic of trained street fighters, were ranks of stone-throwers. Messengers scurried between the lines to transmit orders from leaders, and on the sidelines girls stood by to help the wounded to safety. Infiltrators sneaked behind the police and, with the sickening crunch of brick against skull-bones, felled cop after...
...results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest to redeem himself with another invention: "That is the push button by which we could transmit our emotions instantly back to the broadcasters...
Collecting and keeping such an endless stream of racing information is an intricate business. Crews of Perlman's men- dockers, chart-callers, call-takers, reporters-cover every major North American race. To transmit the information, the Telegraph has its own teletype circuits. It also keeps in type, ready to print, the up-to-date records of more than 30,000 horses...
...Roger Lamy." "It is a poor time for jokes," replied the friend. "Roger is dead." The local police, when he called them, were equally unamused; "Funny business is not funny when it concerns the police," a cop growled. He agreed at last, as a public service, to transmit the dead man's message to his sister. The first real partisan Roger found in his fight for life was a Professor from the Lycee. "I would never leave a man alone in a situation like this," said the brave academician...