Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just when a truce seemed near, the Communists rekindled the fighting war with unexpected vigor. In a driving rain one night, Chinese Communist bugles shrilled, signal flares blossomed under the low clouds. Then, on the mountainous central front. 17,000 Chinese Reds hit the crack ROK Capitol Division and three other South Korean outfits in the heaviest enemy attack in two years...
Fighting spread. The mobs rampaged through the bazaars, stopped trains in the outskirts, cut signal wires and threw acid at firemen who tried to stop the fires. Their tactics showed how long the Communists had prepared. When police jeeps came after them at night, someone would blow a whistle and the street lights would go out. Then, at the moment of blindness, they would rush from the alleys, sear the cops with acid and drive them from the street...
...jams with axes or dynamite. Today, logging's storybook excitement and din is again lost to unspectacular efficiency. If wood piles up behind rocks, or wanders high and dry up on the river bank. Jenssen will casually ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay, but the dead yesterday of whiter water...
...Having put the brakes on credit expansion by raising interest rates, Humphrey last week decided the time had come to step on the gas. The supply of credit had become too tight for the needs of a still expanding economy and a Government still in the red. One warning signal: construction, which usually rises seasonally in April and May, dropped in May for the first time in eleven years...
...enlisted in the Signal Corps, whose few planes were the forerunners of the Air Corps. Says he: "I just didn't want to end up in a trench." Flying came hard to Private Kindelberger; landings came harder. He once smashed up a plane, then brashly stepped from the wreckage and blamed it all on defective materials...