Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black-the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke was white-bella bianca. Moments later, the Vatican Radio, which during the 1958 conclave had twice broadcast premature election bulletins, joyfully confirmed the news...
...side-of-the-coin conservative to put up this time. That way they'll settle this liberal-conservative business once and for all." In Vermont, leaders and voters are still for Rocky, but, says G.O.P. State Chairman Theodore Corsones: "Goldwater could make it if he gives the go-ahead signal for a real fight...
...Lincoln Lab announced that Project West Ford was blasting off once more. A redesigned dispenser climbed into a polar orbit riding piggyback on a secret Air Force satellite. Lincoln Lab scientists followed its course, and when they were sure it was in the proper orbit, they sent a signal that released a powerful spring...
...only one way in which a course should ever become both General Education and departmental. That is, to be the best General Education course that the person giving it can devise. Then if the department recognizes this to be something it wishes to give departmental status, that is a signal victory for General Education, not a subversive inroad upon...
...comparatively crude early radio telescopes. But now the U.S. television industry is about to bulge into UHF, and modern radio telescopes have become increasingly sensitive. They can listen to exploding galaxies near the mysterious edge of the universe, but the slightest interference puts them out of action. A signal from a TV station thousands of miles away can be reflected off an airplane, or a satellite, or even a layer of air, and reach a radio telescope far over the curve of the earth with enough strength left to knock a delicate recording needle right off the scale...