Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these were signs that the Allies had gained the initiative in the west, then Montgomery's advance might be the signal that Eisenhower and Anderson were able at last to get up off their knees and launch an all-out fight for Tunis and Bizerte...
...Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three paces behind. The secretary would advance to her superior's side only on a curt signal, when Colonel Booth had an idea she wanted to discuss. On one hot day, when the SS men gave the internees permission to put on their lightest clothing, Colonel Booth appeared in lemon-yellow cotton bed pajamas, her grey-peppered brown hair hanging almost to her waist, her bonnet still...
...Donnell, captain of the visionary '43 eleven was also on the list. With Cleo in the backfield were Don Richards, victim of a penalty which nullified his 65 yard touchdown run during the Yale game, and Jack Comeford the passing ace. Also mentioned was Wayne Johnson, regular fullback and signal caller who was named Player of the Week after the Brown game...
...parachute mines floated down to block the entrance. Aboard the French vessels, officers and crews sprang to their stations. Searchlights stabbed out, anti-aircraft batteries opened up from the ships and ashore. From the flagship of Vice Admiral Jean de Laborde, commander of the fleet, a signal was given...
...convey was unmolested until one day a signal flag was hoisted on the Commodore's ship meaning "Enemy Aircraft Approaching." Crowmen patiently waited for the mistake to be corrected. In less than two minutes the flag was hanled down, but another took its place, the "Attack Imminent" signal. Everyone waited for the "We're Just Foolin" model, but it never came...