Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harried officials of Agencia Nacional, Brazil's official news agency, replied that the U.S. Army Signal Corps had been asked to set up enough radio transmitters to send all newsmen's copy. The correspondents were not appeased; they sent a petition of protest to President Dutra...
Suddenly the public-address system went dead, the lights went out. The main power switch for the district had been pulled. And that seemed to be a prearranged signal. Like a well-trained football formation, the Communists began pressing toward the speaker's stand, shouting: "Munkások egyesüljetek!" (Workers unite!). It had the cadence of: "We want a touchdown...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
...Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose that he was ahead-by writing "P1" (Position one) on the pit-board-Moore cautioned him: "Don't let Holland...
...Atlantic City last week, the exclusive (225 members) Association of American Physicians took signal note of Dr. DuBois' work by awarding him the Kober Medal. Before it hands out its only award, the Association thinks not twice but many times: among past winners have been such famed medical men as George Minot, William Welch and Theobald Smith...