Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Nazis said that Stauffenberg first took a bomb in Hitler's conference room the day that Rundstedt relinquished his command, but left again without exploding it. Had the Junker taken Rundstedt's removal as a signal that the time had come to strike against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler...
...some German shepherds, a few other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
...leaves weren't blazing red and yellow yesterday, and no October tang was in the air, but plenty of pigskin was flying as the squad, class only in athletic shorts and cleats, ran through signal drills and pass defense. No contact work is expected for awhile...
This piece of political finesse was satis factory all around; the President had not been forced to take an open stand for one of his henchmen and against the others ; and still the Party bosses had been given the "Go" signal on Truman...
...bosses too, had gone to work. His collar open, his shirt sweat-soaked, Bob Hannegan dickered all Wednesday afternoon in his Blackstone suite. Better than anyone else, he knew that a majority of the 1,176 delegates were both: 1) anti-Wallace, and 2) at sea, waiting for a signal from the lighthouse. Hannegan then let it be known that he had telephoned the President, and that the President wanted Truman. Ed Flynn passed along the same news to New York's 96 delegates. So did Ed Kelly...