Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into one of the best with in recent memory, is largely the work of three men; Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, who adapted the novel of the screen, and Ray Milland, who plays the part of the hero, Don Birnam. Wilder, whose handling of "Double Indemnity" began the current wave of violent, tough guy films, also directed "Weekend...
Apropos the idea of [WAVE Director] Mildred Helen ("Captain Mac") McAfee Horton, regarding liberal education and the Navy [TIME, Jan. 14], I take exception...
...only advantages of regimentation . . . are in the offices of the gold braid. . . . Ask an enlisted WAVE who has a college degree from Wellesley what she thinks...
Suddenly-the time is approximately 8:14-the whole valley is filled by a garish light, and I am conscious of a wave of heat. As I make for the door, I hear a moderately loud explosion; at the same time, the window breaks in with a loud crash. I am sprayed by fragments of glass. The entire window frame has been forced into the room. I realize now that a bomb has burst and I am under the impression that it exploded directly over our house. I am bleeding from cuts about the hands and head...
...Goldmark, 39-year-old, Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough, color television can be in the U.S. home...