Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says after each of his conquests, 'Now, no more. All is well.' But there has always been more, and there may be more still. Sir Robert Walpole said when...
...sentry on Dongxoai's unfinished airstrip blurted: "The Viet Cong are all over." In an instant, everything came unbuttoned: Communist mortar fire sent hot shrapnel up the village streets, recoilless-rifle shells slammed home, the night air buzzed with bullets. Then out of the ground fog swarmed wave upon wave of Viet Cong shock troops-some clad incongruously in breechclouts and steel helmets, all armed either with grenades, automatic rifles or Chinese flamethrowers...
...folded bud, or wave that laps...
Whatever it was that rocked Central Siberia back in 1908, echoes of the explosion still reverberate in scientific argument. Farmers 40 miles away from the center of the blast were knocked down by the pressure wave and burned by the flash; trees 30 miles from the center were blown over. But no one is yet sure what actually happened...
Weak Wash. Professor Dicke's group is particularly interested in the period when the universe had just begun to expand after its last Big Bang. It was still very hot, containing vast amounts of light and other radiation, but as it expanded the radiation weakened and increased in wave length because of the speed of expansion. This ancient radia tion came to permeate the universe and washed weakly against the galaxies-one of which is the Milky Way to which the solar system belongs. The weakened radiation, says Professor Dicke, may well be what has been detected...