Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loss of Signal...
...called the Radio Road Alert System, and it warns the driver of conditions ahead. Transmitters of limited range (about 200 to 500 ft.) would be planted at fixed spots along the road. Car radios would be outfitted with loops of pre-recorded tape. The transmitters would automatically signal the tape to play such warnings as "Reduce speed school crossing ahead" or "Ice conditions ahead" when the car came within range. Other transmitters would be carried in police patrol cars so that an officer could advise motorists to "pull over, fire engines approaching...
...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...
...kept up its hate chant: "Shoot the foreign invaders! Shoot the foreign invaders!" The opportunity came too often. Taking a wrong turn at the 30th of March Avenue, two paratroopers in a Jeep blundered into rebel territory, swiftly realized their mistake and pointed their rifle muzzles down as a signal of truce. They were cut down in a flurry of fire. Next day a marine convoy of two Jeeps and a three-quarter-ton truck again drove by accident into rebel territory. Four marines died, one was wounded, two captured. At rebel headquarters, Caamaño and Aristy gloatingly interrogated...
...they also have two strikes against them before they take to space. They must be kept as light as possible because of the great rocket effort needed to place them on their high orbits, and in spite of their lightness, they must transmit a radio signal strong enough to be heard at that great distance. Perhaps more serious is the problem of keeping them on station above a selected point on the earth's equator. They are continually pushed out of position by irregularities in the earth's gravitation, by the influence of the sun and moon...