Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hike stock prices from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
...which presumably does understand FM, listened to the arguments for three days, then called a secret session for next week. There, under the War Department's watchful eye, a Signal Corps expert and the industry's experts will get together to decide on FM's next move...
...shiny new desk. He wore khaki shorts, and an open-necked shirt with the five stars of a fleet admiral on the points of his collar. He was waiting. Radio Tokyo went off the air, came on again, screaming about the approach of U.S. planes. Then the Navy signal was flashed. Mitscher's attack had begun...
...noise became more & more insistent, began to sound like the busy signal on a dial telephone. Brennke halted, straightened up, took off the headphones to see what was wrong with them-and instantly dived into the roadside ditch. The odd sound was the zing of German bullets going past Brennke's head...
Climax & Aftermath. Suddenly two yellow flares arch out of the smoke. They signal possession. For five minutes there is no movement. The smoke slowly drifts away. Then, one by one, infantrymen begin to appear on the Jap parapets, walking about nonchalantly against the skyline, stretching their arms, folding up wire...