Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying loaded for bear, but for rabbit," said one pilot wryly. But on the deck of each of her carriers, right over the "special weapons" bay, stands a single A3D bomber. An armed marine guard stands by to keep inquisitive seamen at a distance. Should the signal come from Washington, the deck beneath the A3D would open, and up would come an elevator to tuck into the plane's belly a nuclear bomb capable of reducing all Peking and its masters to radioactive dust...
...appointment with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, decided to use a short cut-a small, one-way alley officially reserved for der Alte himself but informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan screeched off toward the chancellery, Good Cop Hahlbohm dutifully...
...Policeman Hahlbohm was still at his accustomed post, gracefully accepting the bouquets, bottles of brandy and cheers proffered him by passing motorists. As for Franz Josef Strauss, he was still exercising the informal privilege of using the chancellery alley-but only, noted Bonn police headquarters, "after the proper signal from the policeman on duty...
...preshow "briefing session." But the week's real drama was played out on the tape in the D.A.'s office. Leading character: Dan Enright (real name: Daniel Ehrenreich), 41, who rose from New York City's schools via radio engineering jobs and the Signal Corps into the dazzling giveaway world...
...radiomen tried. Nobody heard the signal. Next afternoon Navy code crackers at Guam broke a report from a Japanese submarine, saying it had sunk a battleship of the Idaho class in the exact position where Indianapolis should have been. Even though old battleship Idaho was near by, nobody gave it a second thought-the Japs were always making such claims. Nobody stopped to figure that with his sea-snail's eye-view, a Jap sub commander could mistake Indianapolis for Idaho...