Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collapse of Germany, said Byrnes, would be the signal for initiating a whopping $30 billion cut in Government war spending-from the current yearly rate of about $90 billion down to $60 billion. Along with this, U.S. people could look forward...
...general attitude of the Americans was reflected by Lieutenant Lawrence Bangser, veteran Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
...Patton was playing his favorite role. He was the swift, slashing halfback of Coach Eisenhower's team. His quarterback, General Omar N. Bradley, had set up a climax play and had called Patton's signal. Halfback Patton had had superb blocking from Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army. Now the star open-field runner was ripping into the secondary defense...
...Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in the Mediterranean, conferred with Marshals Tito and Tol-bukhin last month. That seemed to signal a concerted Allied drive in Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary, possibly aiming at a common front from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube. Last week, forestalling a possible German sortie through the Moravian Gate against the flank of their northern armies, the Russians were attacking the gate themselves...