Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Bomarc, long-range anti-aircraft missile, was in the air within two minutes after an alert signal, searched out and destroyed a drone B-17 bomber 100 miles out over the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Canaveral...
...transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on a 200-acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short-range broadcaster, but will not interfere with Rome's stations, as the old unit...
Yesterday's rain forced the squad to practice in Briggs Cage. Shepard drilled the team on routine signal-calling and defensive alignments to be used against Penn's unbalanced line, T-formation offense...
...launching of the satellite will have rendered a signal service to the cause of freedom if only we react strongly and intelligently to its implications. Let us resolve, once and for all, that the absolute necessity of maintaining our superiority in military strength must always take priority over the understandable desire to reduce our taxes...
Acheson, besides advocating a build-up of European troop strength, warned that a withdrawal of U.S. troops from their overseas bases would be a signal for Russian attack...