Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little owl-eyed man with a sunburned bald spot walked in, and this was the signal for everyone to sit up. Everyone said, "Hi yuh, Jack?" Jack said he was all right except for the burned bald spot and everyone howled and said that was rich. Everyone remembered to call him "Jack." He used to be "Jake" but he had sent word around: "Call me Jack." Jack sat down grinning. Now everything...
Inner Man. In Manhattan, Jesse Blades, in happy retirement after 20 years as a cop, saw a police signal box, obeyed his impulse, got a court reprimand for shouting "vile and abusive language" into...
...long-expected warning signal came out of Germany last week. It came from Germany's roughest, toughest and second largest city, half-ruined Hamburg...
That $22.50 allowed by the G.I. Bill for books sounds like a signal for a shopping spree, but after two weeks of combing the Square, students have taken to beating their neighbors to Widener in the morning to snatch one of the two copies of their assigned books off the reserved shelf. The shortage, and in some cases, non-existence of required college texts, is not the fault of any one particular group, and can be attributed in large part to rapid demobilization, causing an unexpectedly high enrollment during the spring and summer terms. In spite of the fact that...
Summary Proceeding. In Churubusco, Ind., Town Marshal Ben demons gave a restraining signal to a speeder ahead of him, got such prompt obedience that he barreled into the car, practically demolishing...