Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first preliminary signal at 9:35 o'clock called all wardens to their posts. Thirty-four minutes later the climax stage began and all street lights were blacked as a "visible signal...
...Cossack woman's husband had been killed at Rostov. She cautiously drew from under the floor an old scimitar wrapped in rags, drew it from its scabbard, tried its edge and resolutely made for the door. Creeping toward the pigsty, she stood crouching by the door awaiting a signal from her son. The boy squeaked softly like a mouse...
...trap, baited with cynical confidence that a U.S. merchant ship would observe the law of the sea and relay a distress signal, thereby revealing her position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...
...special rights given them by the Yukon territorial government. Doughboys hunt to vary meals of corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken) which doze on the lower tree limbs...
...effort and that all able bodied men are destined for the armed forces, the report merely reemphasizes what every college student has known since Pearl Harbor. The accelerated stream of draft questionnaires pouring into college mail boxes during recent weeks is a far more visible storm signal than the report's statement that it is impossible to guarantee a complete course of study to any student. Passing responsibility from committee to committee, the report features few concrete proposals...