Word: crystalize
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...military convoy moving at night . . . is something that nobody who has been in one can ever forget. . . . The moon was just coming out. The sky was crystal-clear, and the night was bitter cold. . . . We had to cross over a mountain range. There were steep grades and switchback turns, and some of the trucks had to back and fill to make the sharper turns. . . . We had long waits. . . . We would shut off our motors and then the night would be deathly silent except for a subdued undertone of grinding motors far ahead...
...diamond cutter sets his whirring wheel, dresses its edge with diamond dust and lubricant as it saws slowly into the big, water-clear crystal on the cutting stand. But the big crystal under the wheel is not a diamond. It is quartz, the most abundant of all minerals but a newly prized jewel of war. Once ground to size, it is the governor of ship, plane and tank communications, an indispensable monitor of the accuracy of range-finding instruments and fire-control devices...
...uncanny accuracy of quartz crystals in frequency control demands unyielding accuracy in manufacture. The wafers must be cut with due attention to the structure of the mother crystal, must be ground to within a ten-thousandth of an inch...
...important is the right kind of crystal that the Signal Corps last month set up a special inspection laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, and plans for the mechanization of quartz mining are well under way. The sentiments of the Signal Corps are visible in a big poster which hangs in many a cutting room. It reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE ... -------ON THE RUN." In radio code the dots & dashes spell...
Finnish sisu-meaning a peculiarly Finnish brand of doggedness, capable of facing down death itself-was at work against the Allies. Last week one element of sisu affecting Finland's war position became crystal clear: Finland's instinctive hate and dread of Russia is the principal barrier to a separate peace with Russia. The presence of German troops in Finland and the fear of German reprisal are secondary to the Finns' conviction that Russia is their implacable enemy...