Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudolph also revealed that Cambridge would abandon its red and yellow traffic lights and will begin to install the "walk, don't walk" signal when the old signals...
...have to have some uniformity," Rudolph asserted. "The other 49 states the 'walk-don't walk' system. There a lot of out-of-state people in Camge and the red and yellow signal confusion...
...line plunges by all-Ivy fullback Bill Granz and a pass by signal caller Mike Bassett brought the ball to the Brown seven. Taylor's subsequent score ever left tackle and Hartranft's point after touchdown surprised no one and seemed to set the stage for a Crimson romp...
...Mercury capsule which has made three orbital flights, is largely controlled from the ground. Mercury astronauts can partially shut off ground control by flipping switches; they are in fact, told to do so in order to eliminate the remote possibility that a stray electronic impulse (or an enemy-sent signal) might fire their retrorockets prematurely. But eventually they must flip that vital switch back on again. Only a signal sent from the ground at the proper instant can bring them safely down...
...characters who vibrate to Stacton's obsessive music move in a dim past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...