Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University fire-fighters displayed their ability to cope with incendiaries in an "incident" atop the House squash courts. At a given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant looking on, the valiant blaze-battlers finished their task, and like the Arab of old, silently stole away...
Success in Bulk. That was the signal for a general crumbling of what had been for over a year a rigid, unbreakable line. On both Colonel General Golikov's front and that to the south under Nikolai Vatutin, who was last week promoted from Colonel General to Army General, the Reds exploited their advantage. Belgorod fell. So did Lozovaya, Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Likhaya. The attackers rolled around Kharkov, which like Kursk had been one of the main fortresses on Germany's great wall of last winter. Russians crept early this week to within seven miles of Kharkov...
Under the new system, the preliminary warning will be announced by a continuous blast of the siren for two minutes. When the raiders are nearly overhead, an intermittent sounding of the siren will be given. Finally, the all clear signal will be broadcast by telephone or by whatever method the individual community deems best...
...with. She weighed 28 pounds and the minimum is 50. She obeyed me like a machine. She'd sit on a "stay" command while I marched out of sight and no one could budge her. I'd reappear from over a rise perhaps 200 yards away and signal "down" and she would drop like a shot, never taking her eyes off me. Then she would sit on signal (too far away to hear), and on the "come" signal fly to me. When she was still 50 feet away I'd signal "down," and she'd drop...
...Alexandre and Moati, who gave U.S. and British troops the signal to land on an Algerian beach. Alexandre, before he escaped from France to Algiers, assisted in General Giraud's own escape from Vichyfrance to join the Allies...