Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his commander ordered his decimated squadron to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Nelson clapped a telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: "I really do not see the signal!" He ended, of course, by winning the battle. His namesake, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, can also affect a blind eye when he chooses, and so far it has served him well...
Three red signal flares soared upward, bathing the Oder River in a garish crimson. Seconds later, 140 huge antiaircraft searchlights and the lights of hundreds of tanks, trucks and other vehicles flashed on and illuminated the German lines brighter than a midday sun. Then three green flares soared into the heavens, and more than 20,000 guns of all calibers erupted with an earsplitting, earth-shaking roar. The German countryside beyond the Kustrin bridgehead seemed to explode. Entire villages disintegrated. Earth, concrete, steel, bits of trees spewed into the air. The concussion from the thundering guns was so tremendous that...
Next, the astronauts sent an electronic signal that was supposed to start the Agena's tape recorder, already programmed to fire the Agena's attitude thrusters and begin a series of gentle maneuvers. Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch maneuver: he undocked...
...Himes started the Yale rally by beating the Crimson's Jeff Grant 4-2 at 177. Wrestling 191, Kit Dove pinned Bill Malugen of Harvard at 2:39, and turned out to be his own best fan. As soon as the referee's hand hit the floor to signal a fall, Dove ran off the mat, literally shrieking with joy, flinging his headguard to the rafters and bowling over a teammate who made the mistake of trying to congratulate...
...exactly why the Adams battery works. But without ever telling the inventor, the Government secretly confirmed his claims and ordered at least 1,000,000 similar batteries. One version is used in meteorological balloons operating at temperatures that would freeze conventional batteries. Another version, activated by salt water, powers signal lights in the survival gear of military aviators...