Word: signalling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair dived...
...Casey Jones, who died a few seconds after "Number Four stared him right in the face," met his end before the days of automatic signal blocks...
...columns and unaware of the trap that had been sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...adjoining room sat his Marshal of the Court, Baron Ion Mocsonyi-Styrcea, his good friend, now Foreign Minister, Grigore Niculescu-Buzesti, and his secretary Mirce Ionnitiu. In a third room, an officer and three members of the King's Palace Guard waited his signal...
Without warning or signal, the executioners fired:-two volleys. The six bodies slumped. Maquis officers ran toward the stakes, fired a revolver bullet into each head. Within a minute after the coup de grâce, the hands had been cut free, the bodies lay prone...