Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed in a newspaper column; it caused a run on his first three books. His 20 poetry volumes since then have all sold well...
...question that nagged Washington was whether the shift to future indicative did, in fact, signal a bona fide peace bid. Outside of North Viet Nam, no one could say for sure. Nonetheless, other simultaneous developments added to the sense, if not the substance, of the hope that there might be some movement in the diplomatic deadlock...
...half of the 1967-68 TV season has been seismographic. In one recent six-week period, the Beverly Hillbillies jounced from the No. 1 position to 27th, Ed Sullivan from 19th to third, Dean Martin from 20th to seventh. Significance-wise, say the programming vice presidents, these sharp fluctuations signal the era of the "selective viewer...
...campaign should be a spectacle to behold. If there is one thing that Lyndon Johnson enjoys as much as being President, it is running for President. On the stump, he enjoys a signal advantage his unparalleled record of domestic legislation...
...Federal Reserve Board's increase in the discount rate from 4% to 4½% in November was primarily a reaction to international pressures on the dollar created by the devaluation of the British pound. Many observers saw it also as a domestic signal that the Fed was disturbed by inflationary pressures that continued to rise even as Congress was refusing to pass a surtax. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors tipped another signal that they are worried about inflation. The board ordered an increase in the reserves of its member banks. The order affected...