Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subs prowled daringly. One crew, drifting in a lifeboat, told of being followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
...almost made it. Then, near Java one morning, a single Jap reconnaissance plane circled her, took a look, streaked for home. Bright signal flags fluttered from the Langley's halyards, and her windburned skipper, Commander Robert Perche McConnell, set himself for the worst. It came just before noon...
...much too late. Only four U.S. sailors were wounded when Desdiv 59, blacked out and wondering just how much damage it had done, bore south through the Strait again. When daylight came, the division looked forward to its leading ship, saw that Talbot had run up the signal that Navy men prize most...
...Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again...
...Oeuvre, Author Tabouis spent hours in the Chamber of Deputies. Uncle Cambon got her a card for the President's box. "All the lovely friends of the Ministers coaxed to be given cards to it." Several of the statesmen had a signal system to let their lady friends know when it was time to go. Minister Loucheur passed his hand over his bald head three times. Minister Daladier blew his nose furiously five or six times. Deputy Ybarnégaray, later Minister for Youth & Family in the Vichy Government, boldly waved a sheet of paper. "Oh, those gentlemen," said...