Word: blinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idled in the darkness, not sure where the other ships were. A red blinker flashed in the night; it was the LCI calling for aid. Skipper Berlin ran his ship alongside. After a hasty conference the LCI's skipper ordered "abandon ship" and men poured over the side onto the Who, Me?'s flat wooden deck...
...could mean only that a carrier was in the vicinity. But carrier escort, too, was unusual for an ordinary convoy. Hours later the crew spotted the answer: up over the horizon came a "baby flattop," a carrier converted from a merchantman, escorted by several old four-stacker destroyers. By blinker light the little carrier reported...
...hear that call right now, ringing out at this very moment at Columbia and Northwestern, we'll bet. And you can see them running blinker drill, and ordnance drill while we muster for statistics lab and industrial management. They're looking forward to commissioning day at Columbia and to mid-semester exams at Northwestern (and here we sing "Four More Months to Go" (grunt, grunt)...and for most of us that's only forgetting the fact that we should be singing "Twelve More Months...
...blinker, we sure are a stinker...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...