Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bright moonlight night. Enough German planes were feinting at London to keep the night-flying defenders there preoccupied. Meantime wave after wave of heavy-laden bombers passed around and northwest to Coventry. All night they kept at it until they had dropped over 500 tons of high explosive, 30 tons of incendiaries on the old city where Lady Godiva once rode naked to protest against high taxes. Coventry, "Britain's Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories...
...Others, established later: bending of starlight around the sun, stretching out of the wave length in light from heavy stars...
...Chief Pietro Badoglio and Wilhelm Keitel met and talked strategy. It must have been an embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians sent wave after wave of planes to strafe Greek positions everywhere, and concentrated tanks near the Yugoslav extremity of the border...
...Bucharest blackout was suddenly illuminated by the blinding flash of blue light which accompanies the first wave of an earthquake. Then came a series of violent shocks accompanied by the ripping, crashing noise of falling buildings and the screams of people. In five minutes more damage was caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that...
...Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show...