Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although many WAVES were seen in Cambridge over the weekend, these were not the advanced guard of the Radcliffe contingent, but part of a unite from Northampton. Lieutenant-Commander Mildred McAfee, director of the WAVES, several days ago disclosed that the WAVE officers would study at the Navy Supply School at Harvard...
Flares dropped by the first wave of planes illumined the Genoese forts and the armament and shipbuilding plants which were the R.A.F.'s objectives. Huge two-ton bombs plummeted down. Genoa lighted up in flame...
...Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...
...principle, jamming is as simple as ABC: the jamming station sends out a conflicting broadcast on the same frequency as the offending broadcast. But United Nations broadcasters have various means of fighting back. San Francisco's KGEI sends its programs across the Pacific on at least five different wave lengths, jumps from one to another to evade the Japs. BBC sometimes fights interference by changing its wave length slightly in mid-broadcast; by the time the jamming station catches up to it, it may be on the move again. Furthermore, BBC's European Service...
...Walter Bailey's porch looked skeptical, but watched more closely. The column clanked off. Then the watchers saw a second wave of infantry worming up to the road. An armored car rolled by full of singing Negroes. This time the infantry fired before Bailey could signal. The car wheeled and bolted over the roadside through the infantry, but was flagged down by the umpire. The Negroes had been so surprised that they forgot to fire. The infantry claimed not only gunfire but two well-landed grenades. "Did you throw any real object to simulate a grenade?" the umpire asked...