Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships (drill a hole in a chunk of coal, fill with explosive, drop coal in bunker. When fed to boilers, the explosion bursts the boilers). When Eddie was judged ready, the Germans strapped ?2,000 on his back, fitted him out with an English-made suit, shoes, detonators, wireless set, and an identity card salvaged from the dead of Dieppe. His mission: to blow up the De Havilland factory making Mosquito bombers. Von Rundstedt himself wished him godspeed...
Eddie was dropped by parachute, made his way on a commuters' train to London, and holed up in a suburban boardinghouse. With his wireless set he established contact with his German masters. But he also made a call from a pay telephone to a British official. Eddie explained that he had been parachuted in by the Germans, and described his mission, but said he wanted to work for England. Brashly, he named his price-a full pardon for all his safecrackings, and permission to keep the ?2,000 the Germans had supplied him with. The British accepted his terms...
...Scoop. Newsman Turner, 52, picked his first radio message out of the air during his boyhood days in South Carolina by stringing wires between the tall pines in his parents' backyard. He worked for a while as a professional wireless operator on ships plying the Pacific. Later, when he became a reporter for Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, he set up a ham set in the city room. When police captured Public Enemy John Dillinger in 1934 and refused to tell newsmen the whereabouts and time of arrival of the plane carrying him from Tucson to Chicago, Turner...
Years before Jung invented a "collective unconscious," Kipling was exploring, in Wireless, what he described as "the main-stream of subconscious thought common to all mankind." In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...within sight of Switzerland could phone his Swiss neighbor only by routing his call through Vienna, 300 miles off, so that the censors might listen in. A staff of nearly 1,000 censors stuck their collective noses into letters from Vienna and the Russian zone, and into all telegrams, wireless and Teletype messages going abroad. Worse, the Austrians had to pay the $500,000-a-year cost of all this censorious attention...