Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wirtz also predicted that the Court decision would not be a "go-head" signal to Republican leadership in Congress...
Drifting snow isolated towns, and blocked roads and rails from the Yorkshire mines to the industrial Midlands, where factories had been given the signal to resume operations this week. Great ice floes, some of them four to six miles long and dotted with thousands of gulls, swept into the Thames estuary. London, which had painfully built up coal stocks, was hard up against it again...
Offense. In Palestine, the Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi ("Liberation Army") thought about the pipeline, blasted it apart in two places. That was a signal for renewed terror; four British soldiers were wounded in other incidents. Palestinians and Britons feared that they were in for another twelve months of bitterness and tension until U.N. acted...
...lantern was needed in the Old North Church to signal the news. This week, as the first of 50 trucks from Texas pulled into Boston, housewives were as eager as so many Paul Reveres to gallop down to the "Automatic Bargain Basement" of Wm. Filene's Sons...
...boys. The younger promptly decided to leave a girls' seminary and join the army. But as the Vanguard finally sidled up to her Cape Town wharf, 1,200 other less protean schoolgirls, dressed in their best white, lined up to form the word "Welcome" on the side of Signal Hill. Some 200,000 more South Africans stood in the sweltering sun or clung to flagpoles to roar their greetings, many fainting with the heat. Britain's considerate King suggested that the shoreward procession start a half hour early...