Word: signposts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
Perhaps the best signpost to the trend of the times is the plight of Pudding, now the Hasty Pudding Service Club, for the use of officers stationed here. Then there's the Yard, with a play-pen for officers' kiddies next to Hollis Hall, and civilians seance as hen's teeth among the ancient elms...
Cordell Hull laid his case plainly before Congress and the doubting Jenkinses. Said he: "What we do ... will be looked upon [by other nations] as a signpost pointing to the path they can expect us to follow. Repudiation . . . would be taken as a clear indication that this country, which in war is bearing its full share of responsibility, will not do so in peace...
...great signpost which Willkie saw required courage to follow. Says...
...eyebrows were raised, either in surprise or indignation, when the tired, lightweight 1935-elected House of Commons almost unanimously voted to postpone Britain's general election for another year.* No one except bumptious Independent Bill Brown compared Parliament to the Reichstag, or intimated that this might be a signpost on the road to British fascism...