Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hill. The local Nazi commander called in the mayor and told him to ring the church bell at 7 o'clock the next morning-the signal for all villagers to gather...
...marched up the hill, past the small, walled cemetery to a grassy ledge overhanging the town. For hours they were kept there. Finally, at 3:30 in the afternoon (the time was verified later from several smashed watches), two red flares arched skyward from the village below. At that signal, concealed machine guns opened up. A few minutes later, 1.200 men and boys lay on the sod in grotesque, moaning clumps. Soldiers moved professionally among them, silencing the moans with machine pistols. Some how, five pretended death successfully. All the rest - the mayor, the priest, the doctor, all the able...
...untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the handsome old clubs in St. James and Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth...
...This year it will reach its height in TV coverage of the coronation. To get ready for the shooting, each network has set up its own command post in London. NBC is so security-minded that important transatlantic messages are sent in code to keep them away from CBS signal-stealers. Boasts NBC's Assistant Producer Robert Graff: "We're going to hit them with every barrel we've got. We're going to be the first and the best." CBS News Director Sig Mickelson, serenely confident, says: "NBC started too late. They...
...yellow alert" will sound, calling Civil Defense personnel to their positions. Twenty minutes later the "red alert," a series of short siren blasts for a period of three minutes, will sound the first signal calling for public response...