Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's selection of Bush as his running mate may be a "clear signal that he wants to broaden the G.O.P. base." Unfortunately, Mr. Reagan's idea of broadening the base is to allow moderates and liberals to share his point of view...
Originally trained as a mathemetician, LeCorbeiller received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1926, following a career in the Signal Corps of the French military during World War I. From 1932-39 he was professor of the theory of electricity at the Sorbonne's Graduate School of Communications. He returned to study at the Sorbonne in 1936 and earned a doctorate in philosophy...
...this had been the real thing, the First Brigade would have been in the air within 18 hours of the signal to go. The 82nd, two other Army divisions and one Marine division are the ground combat element of the Rapid Deployment Force. Because paratroopers are able to land anywhere with maximum speed and surprise, the 82nd is always at the ready...
...Alerted by some timely tipoffs, Islamic guards killed eight officers who were preparing to join another group and take over Nowjeh Air-base in Hamadan, 175 miles southwest of Tehran. The guards then arrested twelve pilots as they sat in their quarters awaiting the "coast-clear" signal from co-conspirators who were to have commandeered U.S.-built Phantom jets. Eleven other rebel groups, en route to the air-base in private cars and buses, somehow learned that the plot had been frustrated and went into hiding. Other insurgents in Tehran were supposed to attack the Central Committee of Islamic Militiamen...
Opening week at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is always a dramatic marathon. Trumpeters in Elizabethan garb signal curtaintime and send eight plays sprinting off the mark in five days, beginning a five-month competition that often finds the winners and the losers in close contention. Four of this season's entries...