Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week to protest the Navy's plan to expose a group of dogs and goats in the forthcoming tests at Bikini Atoll. A few jittery West Coast housewives made inquiries as to the possibility of the Bikini blast setting up 1) a high wind, 2) a tidal wave, 3) an earthquake. But almost nobody in the country seemed concerned about the chances of the world being atomized later...
...Homer's time, the bloody, bull-roaring rites of Knossos were a memory, and the hell-for-leather chariot cavalry and iron-pointed spears of the savage Dorians (the last great wave of northern barbarians to inundate Greece) had driven the Goddess into hiding. Their god, and Homer's, was her rebellious son, Zeus-who later got an ancestry...
...Zero hour, when the bomb is dropped, a blast like a hundred hurricanes will whip the still lagoon. A pressure wave will strike across the Pacific, perhaps to be felt by sensitive instruments in San Francisco and Washington. An earth wave will shoot through the sea floor toward distant seismographs. What will happen to the ships in Bikini Lagoon, no one knows...
...knew who made 20-odd trips with an ammunition-carrying LCI from Bizerte to Sicily, and who later was blown to bits at Salerno, received a posthumous commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. .. . But I rode up on the train from Washington not long ago with a WAVE who hadn't been out of the country, and on her chest was the same .. .ribbon...
Shock & Blast. Next came the shock wave, essentially a sound wave and moving with the speed of sound. Close on its heels came a shattering blast of air displaced by The Bomb's expanding gases. The shock wave claimed its victims by squeezing their bodies, compressing their internal organs, puncturing their lungs. When the vacuum which followed it reached them, the gas in their stomachs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tissues. Then came the blast, at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour, sweeping them over the ground, along with the churned-up rubble and blazing wood...