Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another two-man crew in another capsule sends a concurring signal. Finally, any of five control centers in each squadron can push a switch labeled "inhibit" and stop the launch...
...Princeton. And there, one snowy night as he walked from his club to a laboratory, a problem that he had been puzzling over was unexpectedly resolved and the facts fell into place. Bohr realized that it was the rare uranium isotope U-235 that fissions. That knowledge was a signal contribution to further U.S. research...
...newcomers will have radio transmitters powered by solar cells, and unless they are silenced in some way, like Vanguard they will broadcast long after their original jobs are done. But to shush a satellite and clear its radio channel is not as simple as it sounds. A radio signal could be sent from the ground to tell the satellite to turn itself off, but this would require tying up a standby radio channel and force the satellite to carry heavy special equipment for one brief moment...
...award was a signal victory for General Dynamics' President Roger Lewis. 50, who took charge last February after the company had lost a staggering $143 million in 1961. Lewis, a onetime Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1953-55), has tightened operations and tugged GD back into the black. On TFX he got some help from that charming, arm-twisting Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Pentagon insiders now refer...
...which the bread-and-butter series centers around the belly play. In its most common form, this play starts as an off-tackle smash by the fullback. The quarterback places the ball in his stomach and "rides" him with a sideward step toward the line of scrimmage. The signal caller can either leave the ball in the fullback's arms or he can pull it out, and run, pass, or hand off to a trailing halfback...