Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guardia operator watched his screen helplessly, the two blips continued for a second or so on collision course. Then there was one pinpoint where there had been two: the TWA signal had vanished from the radar screen, and the second blip crept on its northeasterly course for eight miles. Then it, too, disappeared...
...fall at 0755 hours on the morning of the 7th. "I thought it probably a maneuver, but rose and switched on the shortwave" to get the 8 o'clock news from Radio Tokyo. Twice during the weather forecast, the announcer reported "East wind, rain." That was the code signal indicating an attack against U.S. territory.* Yoshikawa immediately began burning his code books and other intelligence materials. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived that day to pick him up for eventual repatriation, the only incriminating sign of his activities that they found was a sketch of Pearl Harbor...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...
...misbehaved in an unexpected way. Its internal electrical circuits reacted with the earth's magnetic field and made the satellite's axis swing slowly away from the desired direction. To keep this from happening again. Tiros II has turns of aluminum wire running around its girth. On signal from the earth an electric current can be shunted through the wire. This will modify the effect of the earth's magnetism and should keep the satellite's axis pointing properly...
...that in the future the choir perform "songs of the new era." Finally, last week, the choir's long-planned tour of West Germany was abruptly canceled, and Thomas decided he had had enough. Said he in West Berlin: "I hope my decision may serve as an alarm signal. Perhaps there is one last chance to keep the choir from being alienated from its tradition...