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Word: signal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the knock on his height, the frosh signal caller doesn't feel that his size is much of a problem. "I played in an all-star game in California where all the linemen were around 6-4 and it didn't bother me. I just have to go back a little further. If I know where my receivers are, I'll hit 'em," he said...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Ron Cuccia | 9/29/1978 | See Source »

...this, as on most days, Jon Lunsford's two oldest sons-Doug, 20, already married and the father of two, and Danny, a shy 16-year-old-open at 6:30 a.m. to answer the chorus of ding-dings set off as cars begin rolling over the rubber signal hose stretched across the driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wyoming: Greasy Work at the Crossroads | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...grand prize of a Datsun 280Z, a $5,000 personal appearance contract and an all-expenses-paid vacation for two in London. Sample: "Amigo, knock the slack out, turn on your ears to the 40-channel maximum, legal power ... Stop walkin' the dog, gettin' bad scenes, signal dropout and bleedovers. Why be a tweakie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that this signal will be enough to move Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Stage Two with Teeth? | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...number of Cardinals were so exuberant at the election of the new Pontiff that they rushed up to the stove themselves and stuffed in their personal notes and tally sheets, igniting the paper with black flares. A white signal had already gone up, but now the Cardinalitial enthusiasm caused the chimney to belch bursts of black and gray smoke, keeping the crowd in St. Peter's Square guessing for the hour it took for John Paul to make his first appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How Pope John Paul I Won | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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