Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans no longer had much semblance of a line on the Eastern Front, except on maps. They had only bloody, bewildered fragments of armies, of divisions, tossed about and swallowed like debris in a tidal wave. On some sectors, on some days, the Red spearheads covered 30 miles, a creditable pace for a peacetime army on maneuvers. It meant that there were no Germans in their path at those points, or not enough to matter...
...Japan seldom lets 15 short-wave minutes go by without a trumpet fanfare and the announcement: "This is the Broadcasting Corporation of Japan...
Gloomiest observer was the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. Over & over again during the past two years FHLB Commissioner John H. Fahey has warned that every type of financial insti tution has been making "reckless" loans, that the "unsound wartime realty boom" could have but one end: a postwar wave of foreclosures that might make the last depression look like a sideshow...
...Saipan, setting the battle scene by casual conversations with privates and admirals, by recording 250 men singing Abide With Me (and obviously meaning it) in the ship's sweaty hold, led by a sweating chaplain. The recorders were near the beachhead in a landing craft as the first wave of Marines went in, Hays quietly telling what he saw, Hepburn manipulating the controls and making one anxious comment for all to hear: "If that's not recording, I'm gonna...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...