Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have all types here-chiefly Airedales, shepherds, collies and Dobermans. When a dog becomes thoroughly obedient and responds correctly to every command and signal, he is schooled in defense of his master and in attack. If they don't defend us, they are ruled out, and it is here that most dogs fail...
...tanks went in at dawn. While a bitter wind swirled the sands of the Sahara the infantry waited in slit trenches for their signal. Faces and clothes were grimed with the dust. They were in full battle kit. Their weapons glinted in the bright sun. These were Montgomery's shock troops. They had done the job before at El Alamein where the long trek had started. They were eager to do it again for the harsh, implacable man whom they adored...
...signal came that night. There was the moan of aircraft in the moonlit night, bombs began to rain on the enemy's position. For half an hour shells screamed overhead, throwing up a bright light of flame when they landed...
Information about the U.S. has been extremely scarce in the Eastern Hemisphere. Newsstands in such cities as Ankara have been stacked with Axis publications. Europe has been flooded with the Nazi propaganda publication Signal...
...complicated task of explaining to the new men about the relation of the armed forces to the College fell to Colonel Philip Fox, Commanding Officer of the Army Signal Corps at the Electronic School. Dean Paul H. Buck then presented the alternative to the Freshmen of taking either regular liberal courses or those pertinent to the war effort...