Word: signal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military equipment and civilian instructors, including hastily demobilized Army Signal Corps men; by week's end the U.S. population of Laos (about 600) was double what it had been two months...
...lands behind the Iron Curtain, membership in the Communist Party is meant to be a signal honor, a reward for extraordinary services on a tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack...
Blanket Charge. In Fresno, Calif., when police picked him up in an orange grove and booked him for drunkenness, Roy Hutchinson righteously protested: "I am an unemployed smoke signal sender...
Fish Finder. A small (6 in. in diameter), portable fathometer depth sounder for amateur fishermen, which flashes a red signal when a small boat passes over a fish, was put on sale by Raytheon Co. The device, small enough for use on a canoe or raft, sends out ultrasonic signals that fish cannot hear, is powered by a self-contained battery...
...Rasmussen family, used to the simple life, was completely storm-tossed by the invasion. Anne-Marie's mother stayed mostly at home and watched her flower beds get trampled. Only the importation by the Rockefellers of four publicity men from the U.S. (one of whom promised to signal from the front door of the church when Anne-Marie said her jo) enabled the newsmen to get their stories while ensuring a little privacy to the participants...