Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signal-Caller. The State Department, for its part, would like to see the conferees at Bogota limit themselves to one main enterprise: a more effective and tightly knit union of the Americas. This would be achieved by treaties to strengthen Pan American cooperation in military and political matters. State hopes that the conference will avoid embarrassing floor-wrangling over economic aid. Such controversies, successfully postponed at the Rio Conference last summer, should be postponed again, the U.S. feels, until a purely economic meeting to be held later...
...third time this week the Jayvees made like Bruins, and performed Providence plays against Varsity defenders dressed for combat work. Signal drills and line blocking exercises completed mid-week pre-Brown preparations...
When the scrimmage ceased, Harlow and assistant kept up the tempo with signal drills, kicking under pressure and forward pass offense and defense and toward the end of the afternoon people in the enclosed practice arena started smiling for the first time in weeks...
...almost without exception refused to admit it. Then Committee Counsel Robert Stripling fired the two questions: "Are you a member of the Screen Writers' Guild?" "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah Bessie: "General Eisenhower has refused to reveal his political party affiliation and what...
...orchestra. He spent nearly all he could save on phonograph records. At 52, he owned 1,500. For 15 years, standing on a leopard skin in front of his gramophone, he would wave a baton at an orchestra that wasn't there. Eyes closed, jaws set, he would signal with palm upraised to the imaginary brasses, pout at the piccolos, bend to the cellos. He knew the scores of several symphonies by heart...