Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white stucco British army grocery store in Ismailia, 43 British wives and their children were shopping unusually early. "I thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British...
...Then a huge 10 foot push ball was purchased, but too many men got crushed in the melee. After that, the football rush was instituted. The two classes lined up at opposite ends of a field. Five footballs were placed in the middle. At a signal, each class tried to get footballs over the other goal line. It the freshmen managed to beat their bloody way through the sophomores three times, they were excused from wearing beanies for the rest of the year...
Healey's double assignment is the result of injuries to Captain Red Wylie and tailback Dick Clasby. Clasby, still suffering from a bruise on the crest of his hipbone, did not run through signal drills with the team yesterday and will probably play very little tomorrow...
...sophomore signal-caller took advantage of Army's charging line to pull a screen pass play--quarterback to fullback behind a cloud of blockers that was, on at least one occasion, close to perfection. His favorite inside device was a handoff to left half Tom Collins or a pitchout to fullback John Foster, while either of these hard-running backs followed his left guard over right tackle. And the speed of Miller's throws made spot passes to ends Dave Thielscher and John McDonald frequent and effective at loosening the Knight defense...
...plane appears hostile, a yellow alert (attack likely) is flashed to civil-defense officials in the potential target area. A red alert (attack) is the signal for sirens to wail and people to seek shelter. Meanwhile, in defense jargon, fighters will "take appropriate action," i.e., try to shoot down the intruder...