Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Busy Signal...
...even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing the applause, pudgy palms pounding high over his head as the signal, Castro got enough cheers even for his mammoth ego. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah hailed the speech as "dramatic." Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser hugged Castro and invited him to Egypt...
...well-wishers, Kennedy moves rapidly, shaking every available hand, signing autographs, smiling shyly and murmuring "Thank you" or "Glad to be here," as he goes. Greeting his fans from a distance, he lifts his right hand in a diffident, shoulder-high wave that is identical with the football signal for a first down, but deliberately resists such exuberant gestures as the wide-open Eisenhower arms. Generally, he goes over fine: some politicians even suggest that he has the old "Roosevelt aura...
...week's end Premier Debré scheduled the first ministerial committee session to debate the report and draw up parliamentary bills. No French official believes the Rueff-Armand recommendations have any chance of complete adoption, but even piece by piece their gradual enactment would signal a far-reaching stride toward a freer, more productive French economy...
...later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device. A few months later they achieved the "transistor effect," a greatly amplified signal, using only a sliver of germanium and three wires...