Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Residents of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, strolling onto the terrace for a breath of night air and a final look at the moonlight-flooded city, heard night-jarring sounds. From a brightly lighted second-story window came angry voices. Curious newsmen stood listening to name-calling, the sound of face-slapping, of furniture being upset...
...weather is gorgeous and I, mistress of Germany's and the world's greatest man, have to sit at home and look at it through a window...
Tinsel Snow on Europe. Another effective countermeasure was "Window": strips of aluminum foil tossed into the air from planes. Two ounces of it looked to enemy radar like an entire bomber. The British first used Window during the 1943 raids on Hamburg. Cried the Nazi gunners, as swarming puffs of Window spotted their radar scopes: "The planes are doubling themselves...
With counter-radar in full swing, a major raid on Europe became a complex business. Decoy planes dropped streamers of Window, filling the scopes of the Nazis' early-warning radars with swarms of imaginary bombers. From the cliffs of England, Tuba boomed its blasts, adding to the confusion. As the column of bombers swept toward Germany, Carpet cheeped from every plane, dazzling the Wurzburgs, while more puffs of glittering Window covered the sky with phantoms...
...Window" experiments were conducted secretly out at sea, but trials of electronic jamming were harder to conceal. Once the researchers tied up the whole Boston police communication system for half an hour by accidentally jamming the patrol cars' short-wave radios. On another occasion, the New Haven Railroad electrified lines were stopped in their tracks by a form of Window called "Rope"--rolls of aluminium tape, which fell from planes and draped themselves across high-tension wires, short-circuiting them