Word: signalman
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...people on San Francisco's piers 30-32, Dave Graham in his windbreaker resembled a small blue buoy. As BB-63 slowly eased to a berth, Graham was moving his arms briskly and systematically as if conducting an orchestra. Four stories up on the ship's signal deck, Chief Signalman Mike Kennedy took note. While others ogled the U.S.O. dancers on the dock, he broke out a small pair of blue and white pennants, known as papa flags, and returned to the rail. In his hands, the flags began to speak back. Before the final lines were secure, Kennedy...
...typical base community in the town of Campos Eliseos, 14 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, 30 local residents meet every Friday night in a cinder- ^ block home to read the Bible and discuss their problems. Antonio Joinhas, 44, a railroad signalman, relates how one study session inspired a local public health center. "After reading how one biblical community helped another to overcome a problem, we decided we could work together too. We all supplied the manpower and raised money for materials from the community. Now we've got a health center, and it came from the Bible...
...were incredulous," Blum recalls. "I stretched out my arms in the signal for R, meaning repeat. Then the message came again, that Roosevelt was dead. The ship's signalman turned to me and said, 'My God, Mr. Blum, who's President...
Throughout, Deighton has fun with the formula without compromising its believability. Hitler's former signalman, for instance, has become an East Anglia chicken farmer, in debt for 2,000 Rhode Island Reds. The directors of M16 and BND-West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This...
...sits hungover and breaks a stick in two with deep concentration. Later he stands sillhouetted in the distance and jerks the clockface Navy hand-signals he's learned from Nicholson in the last few days. When he gets out of jail he wants to be a signalman...