Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tufts of grey hair stuck out over his ears, straggled wispily over the top of his head. Coatless, wearing a white shirt and plaid tie, he leaned back in his swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...
Most important of all, Sinkiang presents new statesmen in China with the problem their predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
Will the Senator Yield? This was the signal for Administration stalwarts. Majority Leader Alben Barkley inquired innocently: "How does the Senator know that of his own knowledge...
...signal from the British Rear Admiral in command, the Italians fell in behind the British squadron. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's naval aide and representative aboard the Warspite, Commander Harold Butcher, heard a British officer say: "Pretty sight, that...
...tracks went another diner, two Pullmans, five coaches-nine of the train's 16 cars. They piled up in a great, hasty W, tearing up the rails, twisting them like horseshoes. One coach was crumpled like an accordion. Another, slithering off the rails, hit a signal tower, was sliced in two from...