Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...
...concert of death was about to begin. From the White House came a 22-word program note: "The conference of the combined staffs in Washington has ended in complete agreement on future operations in all theaters of the war." Millions of players stood with instruments raised, ready on signal to crash out the first chord of the Roosevelt-Churchill Invasion Symphony...
...important is the right kind of crystal that the Signal Corps last month set up a special inspection laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, and plans for the mechanization of quartz mining are well under way. The sentiments of the Signal Corps are visible in a big poster which hangs in many a cutting room. It reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE ... -------ON THE RUN." In radio code the dots & dashes spell...
...German Purchase. The sudden withdrawal in the north was the signal for Allied advances all along the line. These advances ended a week of German counter-attacks which had been successful to the extent that they had bought a commodity the Germans dearly want-time. Germans and Italians had hit back just as the Allies wound up the first, preparatory phase of the battle and paused for breath before undertaking the conclusive second phase...