Word: signal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when the big day finally arrived last week...
...half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that goes on about actors and athletes, anyway? . . . For some years I've been looking for the quitting signal . . . the time when the years would simply show too much, even if they photographed me through three lace curtains . . . It's nice to hear, 'How does the old boy do it ... why isn't he falling apart?' And all that jazz ... In fact, I feel...
Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
...basically an instant-processing device, which produces negatives seconds after the camera's shutter has clicked, and a telemetry scanner, which transmits the negative to the ground-all contained in a 45-lb. package about the size of two shoe boxes. The ground unit picks up the televised signal, produces a finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received. ¶ A two-stage Thor-Able rocket rose from Florida's Cape Canaveral, blazed its way out of the atmosphere and 6,000 miles downrange toward the South Atlantic. There a squadron...
...story is told about a Social Committee meeting some years ago which was voting on whether to accept the residential inter-House ticket for the Dudley dance. "No," said one commuter firmly, "we don't want those Ivy Leaguers at our party." Staff members took that as a danger signal, and commuters are now accepting more fully the social norms of their classmates--including ties and jackets in the dining hall...