Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passover ambush was the signal for a general uprising in the Warsaw ghetto; 50,000 Jews, all that remained of half a million originally herded behind the ghetto walls, had decided that, since they were to die, they would not die tamely. The Germans brought re-enforcements from Galicia; waves of bombers swept over the defenseless ghetto, raining incendiaries and high explosive. It took them 42 days to level every building. A few hundred Jews-all that were left of the 50,000 in the ghetto six weeks before-escaped through the sewers to join the guerrillas...
...moment or so James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...
...revolutionaries-Laurent Casanova, Andre Marty, et al.-took a licking when they tried a campaign of insurrection. Thorez stood his ground, waited for a signal from Moscow. Would Moscow order a detente (letup) or a bagarre (showdown...
Last week the Kremlin still had sent no signal. Thorez, anticipating a crashing electoral defeat for the Reds in Italy, made his own decision. He plumped for the detente. To a friend he explained: "Marty and I are different sorts of people. There is less difference between a revolutionary and a nonrevolutionary than there is between two revolutionaries...
...Alarm Signal? Business inventories in February, said the Department of Commerce, reached a new high of $42,750,000,000, up 3% from the month before. With a worried frown, the Department noted that only 30% of the $757,000,000 increase was due to a seasonal slack in sales; the rest was caused by growing buyer resistance...