Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WINDS OF CHANGE, by Harold Macmillan. Former Prime Minister Macmillan has written his autobiography, not his memoirs, and this first volume ends as warbling air-raid sirens signal the start of World War II. Historians will find it a must; other readers will be intrigued by the glimpses into the tweed and broadcloth British world...
...term that accommodates every shade of reaction from out-and-out bigotry through unexpected fear to sorrowful inaction. In whatever guise, backlash now threatens not only to overshadow most other issues in many parts of the nation at the polls next month but also to negate some of the signal achievements for which the U.S. Negro has striven so hard...
Many planners do agree that any large-scale training program will have to be conducted at least in part by private organizations, such as universities, churches, and service groups. Some Harvard officials have interpreted remarks by James Reston to this effect as a signal that Washington will look to the universities for help in establishing the program. So far no one at Harvard is working on the problem...
...time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms and red arm bands. At a prearranged signal, several hundred Guards rushed in front of the stand to greet Mao. Mao accepted an arm band and pinned it on, as did his newly designated No. 2 man, Defense Minister Lin Piao. Chanted the Guards: "Chair man Mao, we shall crush the old world and build...
...problems, though none seem impossible of solving in the construction of a full-scale sub. Electric current passing through the water between the electrodes produces some electrolysis; molecules of water break down into hydrogen and oxygen, which rises to the surface in the form of gas bubbles that could signal the sub's presence below. Swimmers who guided the sub felt a tingling but harmless sensation caused by the electric current. "It is almost exhilarating," explains...