Word: searchlights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teresa finally finds fulfillment in the arms of her employer, one James Quick. Readers who follow the searchlight of Australian Author Stead's brilliant verbiage into every depth and cranny of her heroine's complex spirit will find themselves wondering if she has not overdone a good thing. In a tireless effort to prove Teresa's typicality, Miss Stead has made her a singularly atypical case...
...motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army may be interested: 1) a searchlight of invisible infrared or ultraviolet light for seeing and signaling at night, 2) a method of broadcasting waves of the same frequency as ordinary sound. Girl. Anne Hagopian, 16, a Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School...
...these do not speak for Britain. Heavy bombers, tanks, guns, warships, workmen hammering out weapons and munitions, A.T.S. girls manning lonely searchlight posts, paratroopers fluttering down in practice maneuvers, tankmen butting machines through timbered obstacles, sentries pacing windswept beaches -these speak for the Britain...
...then that we picked up, in the beam of a searchlight, a ship's bow protruding from the quiet sea. The Admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam. The Admiral kept asking 'Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge...
...impatience was plain over the TBS ("talk-between-ships") loudspeakers on the bridges of the U.S. ships waiting in the dark. It seemed an unconscionable time before the destroyer, her searchlight still probing, answered: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero...