Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cessation of bombing to encourage Hanoi to discuss peace. Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, and even Western European capitals kept insisting that the sine qua non of opening communications with Hanoi was a stop to the bombing. Last May the U.S. tried a five-day pause. It produced not a single "signal" of a softening on the Communist side, but critics both at home and abroad replied that five days was far too short a time to allow Hanoi to signal a reaction. As the year wore on and the momentum of the U.S. buildup in force in Viet Nam increased, more...
...mission to Hanoi might have a pacifying motive. "Before taking the decision to send Shelepin," insisted Radio Peking, "the Soviet Union was undoubtedly tipped off by the U.S. about its pause in bombing." In any case Shelepin's visit could indeed help determine whether or not a "signal" ever comes from Hanoi. For the war in Viet Nam is more and more the chief ideological dueling ground of the Sino-Soviet quarrel...
...reaches of space. And unlike standard television waves, which penetrate into space but tend to be drowned out by cosmic radiation of about the same frequency, UHF broadcasts could eventually be detected as far off as 200 light years from earth. Each UHF station, says Oliver, sends out its signal in a thin, disklike pattern tangent to the earth. As the earth rotates, that disk sweeps the universe like a giant beacon, eventually carrying its UHF transmission past stars and planets many light years away...
With a sensitive receiver tuned to the UHF frequency of about 670 megacycles, for example, non-earth beings might first detect the signal of an East Coast city's channel 47 as it fans across their distant planet. The rotating earth would bring the signal of a Midwest channel 47 into range about two hours later, a California channel 47 about three hours after the East Coast signal. Not that the observers far in space would be able to distinguish the educational, news and entertainment programs that were shown last week; but they would probably be able to detect...
Three other drilling groups-Shell-Esso, Signal and Phillips-will shortly be joined by Rycade and the Burmah Oil Group. Among them, 23 consortiums have ordered some dozen drilling rigs, will spend more than $300 million exploring the British North Sea by 1969. There is every indication that their huge gamble will ultimately pay off. What they are playing for is a major gas field -some think it may prove to be the world's biggest-that is located on the very doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets: Western Europe...