Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having a front on every wave that breaks...
...busy with a conference-eve 'round-the-world documentary, Memo to the Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...
Approximately 350 officers will form the new class entering NTS (Communications) on Monday, but to the average civilian they will seem another wave on the sea of Navy blue which has been surging in and out of the Yard since the school was established in July...
...Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice...