Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...government the opinions and activities of persons not connected with the government or the armed forces. We infer, rather, that he suggests that the University be "capably" surveyed by a detachment of FBI men rather than by a few part-time middles untrained in the techniques of wire-tapping and infiltration...
With scarcely a harsh word spoken and no show of disorder beyond a cut telephone wire, the fat burglar and the thin managed to filch 600,000 francs in bills from Engineer Henri Berger's office safe and persuade Henri to order another 6,000,000 sent over from the safe in his apartment...
From the training camp, troops graduate to the volcanic black sand beaches not far away. There, facing the mainland, they build concrete pillboxes, string barbed wire, drill endlessly to repel the invasion from the sea. In their off-duty hours, the soldiers sing a new army song...
...present most are designed to resist a wind pressure of 20 lbs. a sq. ft. To give reasonable security against an atom bomb explosion half a mile away, this should be raised to 90 lbs. a sq. ft. At times of atom danger, all windows should be made of wire-glass and lined with heavy wire mesh to catch large flying fragments...
Died. The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton,* 73, rector of Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church...