Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to see a liberal number of visitors. In the presence of his lawyers, he was questioned by a magistrate for 3½ hours about his part in the Ridgway riots a fortnight ago. They wanted to know what he was doing in a car equipped with short-wave radio, pistol and blackjack...
...protest, the Communists called a wave of strikes. Most were flops: France is in better political health than it has been for some time, and there has been a decline in mass support of the Reds. Even so, the Communists who polled 26½% of the vote at the last elections could still make plenty of trouble...
...carefully planned wave of rioting that swept Paris, in the threat of a new Battle for Berlin, in the bloody clash of police and students armed with nail-studded clubs, spears, rocks and sulphuric-acid bombs that marked Memorial Day in Tokyo, there was no sly attempt to seduce the susceptible. Moscow had trusted its dove's sweet song to lull the free West into continued indecision. The song had bamboozled many, but it had not deterred the Western governments...
Radar Ghosts. He did not have far to look. During World War II, Menzel had left astronomy to become a radar expert. One job (as chairman of the Wave Propagation Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) was to study the effect of atmospheric irregularities on radar waves. Sometimes a layer of warm air makes the waves wander oddly, producing deceptive ghosts on the radarscope. Warships have shelled empty ocean, thinking an enemy was there. Since light waves and radar waves behave in much the same way, Menzel reasoned that the same irregularities might produce optical ghosts resembling flying saucers...
...Light moves slower in a denser medium. So when a "wavefront" of light passes at an angle from dense cold air into less dense warm air, the part that reaches the warm air first races ahead of the remainder. This "refraction" has the effect of bending the wave-front toward the cold...