Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are fewer things wrong with the defense. It has allowed 17 points in four games, and no opponent has managed anything approaching a sustained drive. Brad Stephens is extraordinary as a linebacker and signal caller. Jeff Pochop is big and mean, but with Neal Curtin hurt the other tackle spot is dangerously thin. Various other linemen have also been outstanding for the defense: Stephenson, before he was hurt, and Boyda at ends; Capt. Bill Southmayd and Bob Barrett, a tremendous sophomore prospect, at guards...
...works because, on much of the nation's telephone equipment, every call reaching a busy number is shunted away into a ganglion where the busy signal is produced. It is possible, therefore, for everyone getting the same signal to communicate between the beeps on a giant conference call that sounds like a convention of tomcats in an aviary...
...suburban weekly that gave the new beep number-a radio station's recorded weather-reporting service. He discovered that in one week the number of "busy" calls made to the station had jumped from 1,495 to 27,928. Murphy boosted the sound of the busy signal, but the teen-agers just shouted louder. So he had technicians do a job of special rewiring on the station's lines to block any outside noise...
...weeks ago, when tricky Pitt pulled a fake kick, passed for two extra points and beat California, 35-15, for its third straight victory of the season, the entire student cheering section gave Litchfield a standing ovation as he rose in his box and gave the clenched-fist signal: "Go, Pitt...
...Chief nodded his head and the contestants took the field. With him, three of his "yara" (household servants) moved sedately and ceremoniously to the middle of the ground to supervise proceedings. Then, at the signal of a high pitched blast on a cowrie studded war horn the young men, the "samari," (warriors who have reached full puberty, been initiated into the tribe, but are still unmarried), the hope of the future and the finest physical specimens available, met, and joined, if not in combat, then certainly in the nearest thing to it short of actual warfare...