Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops' approach. But each side was unwilling to be the one to touch off a civil...
...Rapids dialed local radio station WLAV to ask that Disk Jockey Tom Quain play his favorite number, I Need You. As usual, the line was busy. But just as he was about to hang up, Joseph thought he heard a babble of voices through the beeps of the busy signal. "Hello?" he ventured, curiously. "HELLO!" shouted some of the voices. Joseph Jaarus had made contact with the beep line...
Last week the Kennedy Administration flashed a red signal on the Pennsy-Central plan-while giving its backing to both the C. & O. and N. & W. moves...
...liquid helium to worry about) with no need for an expensive power source. The current demand could be supplied by flashlight batteries. Says Arthur J. Rosenberg, president of Tyco:' "We could put it in a box the size of a pack of cards, battery and all, and signal with it. It's as simple as that...
...droplets pick up a charge from an electrode attached to an oscilloscope. Then they fall, at the rate of 100,000 a second, between two electrically charged plates and hit a rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical signal being detected by the scope. As each drop passes between the charged plates, the charge it is already carrying causes it to change course and hit the recording paper at the proper spot to leave a permanent record of the oscilloscope's otherwise ephemeral traces...