Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the ship's speaker announced: "The first wave of the attack force is ashore," MacArthur nodded to Doyle. Then the speaker called: "All boats are ashore from the first and second waves. The troops are fanning out rapidly. No casualties so far." MacArthur lowered his head a little, and then a broad grin spread across his face. The night before, he had said we would not take more than 100 casualties on the morning objectives. Now all waves were ashore, with only 15 casualties reported...
...clock the sound of slamming doors had grown deafening. Loaded with helmeted marines, landing craft from two of the high-speed transports had been lowered and were circling around their parent ships. The first and second waves were ready to go in. (We in the LSUs were the third wave...
With the Inchon assault wave was TIME Correspondent James Bell.* His report...
During the night Astronomer Meinel made two exposures. The first was enough: the plate showed bands representing the special wave lengths of light emitted by electrically excited hydrogen atoms. The big news was that the bands were not sharp, but smudged. This proved (by the "Doppler effect")*that some of the light was coming from fast-moving objects: i.e., hydrogen particles racing toward the earth from the sun. A rough calculation gave their speed as about 1,800 miles per second -about the right speed for a 15-hour journey from the sun to the earth's upper atmosphere...
...Light coming from a moving object has a slightly changed wave length and therefore makes a displaced mark on a spectrograph's plate...