Word: signal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians, he said, "see the American exhibition as an exhibition of our own achievements in the near future." The day is not far off "when our country will overtake our American partner in peaceful economic competition and will then, at some station, come alongside America, salute her with a signal, and move on ahead...
...Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely...
...work after completing the first course at Kamakura's 13th century Zen temple, Engakuji. For five days they rose at 4:30 a.m., cleaned their own rooms and swept the temple grounds, and meditated. Anyone who found his mind wandering was supposed to unclasp his hands as a signal, whereupon a waiting monk gave him three sharp thwacks with a stick. Twice a day Chief Abbot Sogen Asahina, 59, lectured them. "When you are in your bus, seated at the wheel or talking to passengers, and feel fatigue overcoming you, stop what you are doing, and for ten minutes...
...plot was originally set for the last week in July. But last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan...
...brasshats, he shows off his success. The Americans puff contentedly on yak dung cigarettes and delicately avoid G.I. profanity-they imagine they are attending a meeting of the garden club in Spring Valley, N.J. They are so thoroughly Pavloved, in fact, that they are ready to commit murder on signal...