Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing in Action. Sometimes patrols never returned. A sergeant nicknamed "Knobby," with a reputation for taking prisoners, led one eleven-man patrol out to capture a house. Behind and out of sight another patrol waited for the signal to join the first. The signal never came. No shots were fired, no sound heard. Knobby and his men, all veterans of 25 months overseas, simply disappeared, swallowed up in the dark ruins...
Colonel Perón moved fast. His First Division marched out of Campo Mayo. His planes dropped flares, pinpointed Duco's troops. There were ultimatums, negotiations. The "Single Command," confused or suspicious, did not give the signal for general revolt. Duco was left alone. At last he surrendered, went to jail...
Gide fans recognized a familiar Gide signal. For Protestantism has been the driving and pursuing force of Gide's life. "Being at odds with his time," Gide once said, " - that is what gives the artist his reason for being." As a child, Gide was at odds with practically everything. His rich, Huguenot parents were part of France's sternly Protestant minority...
...They all volunteered for the services when the time came. David is a senior lieutenant in the Navy, on an aircraft carrier; Robert is a sergeant in the Army Signal Corps in Italy and Stephen...
Despite the fact that they left the day after the big V-12 ASTP sports meet last Thursday night, three of the Signal Corps men participated in the event as their last official act at Harvard...