Word: signallers
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...come they never married, and slept together only once? Well, partly because she can't help topping him onstage or in moral debate. It's hard to cuddle up to all that brass. But also because he's tricky goods, with one of those smeary little mustaches that signal untrustworthiness and the kind of stage manner from which unexamined overuse has drained both spontaneity and authenticity. Even Eddie's devotion to the USO circuit is suspect. His piety is a bit too hair-trigger, and there's always a self- serving glint in his eye when he volunteers...
...times, but the U.S. provided Waite with helicopters and other assistance during some of his missions. By 1986, the captors had intertwined Waite's efforts with the secret U.S. operation: each time a weapons shipment was made to Iran, an Iranian official would travel to Damascus, and North would signal Waite that the time was ripe for him to visit his contacts in Beirut. With these pieces in place, a hostage would be released and Waite could claim credit...
...later. "Under normal circumstances, no plane would be permitted to take off in such weather . . . There were loud cheers as each plane rose into the air." Once up, the pilots circled overhead until all 183 planes assigned to the first wave were airborne. At 6:15 Fuchida gave a signal, then led the way south...
Bratton rushed the message to the War Department signal center, where Marshall's scrawl had to be retyped for legibility. The message went to several points within a few minutes, but because of atmospheric difficulties, the copy for Hawaii went by commercial wireless. It reached Honolulu at 7:33 a.m. and ended in a pigeon hole, awaiting a motorcycle messenger to deliver...
...What a majestic sight," he said to himself as he counted the vessels lined up in Battleship Row in the dawn's early light. He pulled the trigger on his flare gun. That was supposed to signal the slow-moving torpedo bombers to take advantage of the surprise and strike first. But Fuchida's fighter pilots missed his signal to provide cover, so he fired again for the dive bombers to begin, and then the Japanese all attacked at once. Even when they made mistakes, it seemed that nothing could go wrong...