Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upon a signal from the stage, the audience turned to the left in unison and each person gave his neighbor a hearty pat on the back. Then they all turned to the right and patted again...
...inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes his muscles. Only when the anesthesiologist nods assent can the surgeon make the first cut. Any time one of his monitoring gadgets flashes a danger signal, the anesthesiologist may tell the surgeon to stop his cutting...
...Danger Signal. Root of the trouble is a recessive gene. If only one parent has this defective gene, the child will not develop the disease, though he may pass on the gene. But if both parents have it, an average of one child out of four will have a deficiency of ceruloplasmin-a little-understood blue component of the blood, in which eight atoms of copper are bound into a large protein molecule. A deficiency of ceruloplasmin leads to a piling up of copper in such sensitive organs as the liver and brain...
...side-but then it starts searching for the net. Style? Barnett doesn't have any. But who's going to mess with that shot?" On his follow-through, Barnett watches the ball wend its wiggly way toward the basket. His familiar cry, "Fall back, baby!" is a signal to teammates that no matter how bad the shot looks, it is a sure score...
While the earth turned on its daily round and Mariner II cruised toward Venus, JPL's three great radio dishes, at Johannesburg, South Africa, Woomera, Australia, and Goldstone, Calif., picked up Mariner's reports. They were received as a quavering, singsong radio signal, then translated by a computer into an endless series of letters printed on a broad band of paper. Out of the apparently meaningless melange of characters, Mariner men in JPL's control room deciphered their spacecraft's chatter...