Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brien stood a chance, but his defiance was a signal that the race...
...President, in his tiny grey-walled office over Augusta's golf shop, was on top of the situation. Twice a day he conferred with Secretary of State Dulles over a maximum-security telephone line. At the Bon Air Hotel a few miles away, Army Signal Corpsmen decoded incoming intelligence estimates and sped them to the office. Courier planes dipped into nearby Bush Field with locked and guarded leather diplomatic pouches. Grudgingly aware that from all this was coming a set of certain decisions, newsmen gave up on their "Should he return?" stories, relaxed and enjoyed the combination...
Cairo's radio, Voice of the Arabs, strangely muted during the crisis' first week, began talking darkly about plots "in the palace" against the Jordanian people. This was the familiar signal, sounded just before the Baghdad Pact riots in 1955, for Egyptian agents and Communist organizers to lead the mobs into the streets. But before it could begin, King Hussein got into his twin-engine de Havilland Dove, and flew off to a secret rendezvous at H-3 with his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal...
...ease international tensions." Thus, fortnight ago, Nikita Khrushchev called for a change of pace in Russian diplomacy, which for weeks past has consisted largely of sending threatening notes all over Europe, warning NATO allies not to allow atomic bases within their borders. Last week, obedient to Khrushchev's signal, Russia began spraying the air with a new set of spitballs...
...great virtues of the new system for the 5,000-mile ICBMs, according to Dr. Charles S. Draper (TIME, Dec. 10), head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautical Engineering: extreme accuracy, interference-proof operation (weather, sunspots and enemy jamming attempts have no effect), and radio silence (no signal is sent or received...