Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost to a man, officers and seamen of the Micmac stood by their short, wiry skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...
...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
...best teachers trained in the South are turned out by a college with only.a wisp of national fame. Its alumni include the presidents of 16 colleges and universities, hundreds of superintendents and principals. This week, on its 60-acre colonnaded campus in Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers quietly marked its 162nd birthday, and prepared to carry on with the earnest air of an evangelist who knows that there is always another soul to be saved...
Ernie was not being realistic. Neither Australia nor Canada wanted to join Britain in pursuing the will-o'-the-wisp of an imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...
...longer in the hands of push-button extremists, no longer a competitive pursuit by Army, Navy and Air Forces of a will-o'-the-wisp, a research program has been coordinated under a civilian-dominated Joint Research & Development Board. By mid-1949 the board expects to have a working model of a supersonic, target-seeking antiaircraft missile (see SCIENCE), the first line of passive defense against rocket assault. Sometime after 1952 it hopes to have the ultimate in destructiveness: a supersonic missile which can be guided under full control to a target 3,000 to 5,000 miles away...