Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic elevator stops with a jolt. The doors slide open, but instead of the accustomed exit, the passenger faces only a blank wall. His fingers stab at buttons: nothing happens. Finally, he presses the alarm signal, and a starter's gruff voice inquires from below: "What's the matter?" The passenger explains that he wants to get off on the 25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy...
...Street is in for a long market rise. Although stocks backed and filled for most of the week, the Street's excitement was kept up by the upsurge in rail shares. Rails broke through their previous high to reach 150.81, thus, according to the Dow theory, "confirming" the signal four weeks ago of the Dow-Jones industrial average that a bull market...
...began marching in solid phalanx for town. Along the way, they spotted another stalled train starting up. They climbed aboard only to find that the train was not scheduled to stop at Stamford. But one heroic commuter had had enough for one week: he pulled the emergency signal, forced the train to stop, and he and his friends...
...legislature to enlist in the Army, won three decorations for valor, and was mustered out a lieutenant colonel. "I don't like to be dramatic about it," he says, "but everything just seemed ephemeral after the war." The death of both parents in 1957 seemed to him "a signal from the Lord," and he decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to his church. "My College." Once the resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble deciding where to go: the Pontificio Collegio Beda in Rome, only major Roman Catholic seminary specializing in late vocations.* Rooted deep...
...single treaty that would make provisions for all future ramifications; the West preferred signing separate treaties for each separate stage of agreement as it is reached. In spring of 1960 agreement was reached on a controlled ban of explosions, underwater tests, air tests, and underground tests producing a seismographic signal in excess of 4.75. This figure represented the point below which scientists could not agree on the nature of the disturbance. The plan also made provision for a progressive lowering of this "threshold level" as new research made better detection possible...