Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first way is the healthy way. The second usually implies a goal that can never be reached: "the shipwrecked man who has tried vainly to signal for help and finally reverts to calling his mother's name over & over until he is exhausted is an example of how thinking breaks down under the strain of failure...
...down the U.S., ice, snow, winds and subzero temperatures last week slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept...
...afraid to take a position in the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. . . . Artillery and aviation hit their own troops if the distance between trenches is 20 to 40 meters. As soon as German planes appear over Stalingrad our artillery opens fire and the Germans send up rockets signaling: 'Don't hit our own troops.' We give exactly the same signal, and then the devil himself couldn't tell where or how to bomb...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
...starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...