Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switch. In a strong, confident voice, Witness Philbrick matter-of-factly explained something that he and the Government had hidden well. "During the entire nine years of my activities," he said, "I have been continuously in touch with the FBI." The Government had reversed, with spectacular success, the old Red tactic of infiltration...
After the first few flights have proved it airworthy, the airplane is turned over to a military test pilot as his "project." He takes it into the air, loaded with automatic recording instruments, to find out whether it lives up to the contractor's guarantees. Often a hidden defect, perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code...
...microphone, weighing less than oz. and smaller than a stack of six dimes, had its radio try out. Developed by California's Altec Lansing Corp., it does not hide a speaker's face, does not boom when he gets too close, is omnidirectional and can be hidden anywhere on a television production stage. The fact that it can be hidden in a boutonniere might make it useful to sleuths-friend...
...wait long to find out. First on the program was Juilliard President William Schuman's Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause...
...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...