Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning, in the bungalow at No. 5152 Maplewood Ave. in Los Angeles, a man reaches beneath his bed and pulls out a $ 1,000 guitar. While still stretched out on his back, he plays Johann Sebastian Bach. He seldom stops before 8, and when he does, it is the signal for his three sons, who sleep just down the hall, to reach under their beds and grab their own guitars. The family plays together until 10. Then the father laces on some sneakers, and leads his sons in a run five times around the block...
...article branded Teller's belief that a properly prepared America could survive a nuclear attack as "a signal example of the combination of factual error and emotionalism which might lead to such a catastrophe." He was accused of miscalculating the size and effectiveness of a nuclear...
Amid setbacks elsewhere in Latin America, democracy won a signal victory in Colombia. For four years President Alberto Lleras Camargo, a journalist and educator turned statesman, has toiled doggedly for stability, and for enough moderation of age-old political hatreds to permit his nation to haul itself out of the 19th century into the 20th. Next month his term as President ends. Lleras, a Liberal, is seeing to it that his office will be turned over to a Conservative, a man whose party he opposes, but whose right to peaceful succession* he firmly upholds...
...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A cool, clear fictional account of the Mayan civilization's collapse before the Spanish conquest...
...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A hard, glittering, epigrammatic account of the Spanish rape of the Mayan civilization, marred by a central character who just misses coming to life...