Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with these inhuman counterrevolutionaries, these criminals, bandits, secret agents of capitalism, and organizers of Taoist sects?" Voices cried: "Kill them! Kill them!" The peasants understood from the accents of the words that the response had been made by people from another part of the country, but they took their cue. "Kill him! Kill him!" they echoed...
...Communists have hinted repeatedly that if they fail to get what they want by negotiation and political pressure, they could always stoke up U.S. and allied fears of war with some show of force." [As if on cue, the Reds unleashed a 3,000-shell, one-day bombardment of Quemoy, the heaviest barrage in 16 months...
...dolphin give the cue, the clipper makes its play. The surface of the school, a shimmer of young fish, breaks open like taut skin as the ancients of the tribe come hurtling up to take the bait. The men in the scuppers see them coming and join forces for the battle-three poles now are roped to the same hook, and still the big backs bow and the heavy arms knot as 300-lb. tuna fly into the back troughs with each heave...
...popularity, had devoted their efforts toward maintaining control of Congress, mostly by trying to show that they could get along better with Ike than could his fellow Republicans. This was an abnormal political relationship-now ended. The strong possibility that the President will not run again is an obvious cue for the Democrats to return to a more normal, and more aggressive, pattern of inter-party behavior...
Casey caught his cue. He stepped toward the crowd, bowed low to his former fans, and removed his cap with a wide, sweeping gesture. Revived, the sparrow took off and headed toward Canarsie. There was a sudden silence. Seconds later, Ebbets Field rocked with laughter. Casey had given Brooklyn the bird...