Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the storm abated. The armada crept under the lee of Sicily's shore. Just before the hour, all the ships were at the "transport area." Every single ship of the thousand had been accounted for. At a signal, the invasion began...
Disposal. There were signs during the following months that the signal had been heard, but not until last week did H.M.'s Secretary for Colonies signal his readiness to play. Stanley announced that international commissions, on the model of the Caribbean Commission, would be established, comprising states with major strategic or economic interests in the region, "to provide effective and permanent machinery for consultation and collaboration [and] to promote the well-being of the colonial territories . . . though each state would remain responsible for the administration of its own territory...
...Harvard Auxiliary Fire Department was on duty throughout the blackout, as was the Harvard First Aid unit. Both have their stations in Lehman Hall with the Report Center and awaited through out the test a signal that would send them pounding through the streets to duty...
Heavier landing craft, following in, brought more troops, light vehicles, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. Then as the beachheads were established, the Army started its materiel pouring in-armored cars, field artillery, heavy trucks, supplies, ordnance repair crews, signal equipment...
...Cleanup Mission. To French West Africa would go Pierre Charles Cournarie, named Governor General to succeed ex-Vichyite Pierre Boisson, who had been stanchly supported by the U.S. It was an important appointment, one which Gaullists could hail as a signal victory. As the Gaullist Commissioner of the Cameroons, able, youthful (48) Pierre Cournarie had done a model job. In West Africa, recruiting ground of the famed Senegalese troops, he could do much to clean up Vichy's traces...