Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate? He would and he did. With a flick of his thumb, Johnson signaled to presiding senators whom to recognize-speakers who would not antagonize Southerners or be trapped by Republicans. A twirl of Johnson's lifted forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts...
...lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year-old veteran of 20 years' driving, coasted into the pits after one close brush with a little 2-liter French Gordini and told a friend: "We have to get some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour...
...example, he writes "...I would find it difficult to justify Professor Furry's refusal to disclose, to the authorized government authorities, the identity fo his five fellow members in the Party while he was working for the Army Signal Corps... this affair lies so close to the security of the state that I believe a citizen with knowledge off its details should put that information in the Government's hands...
When the flight is over, the Firebee is not lost. At a radio signal (or when something goes wrong mechanically), a small parachute pops out of its tail, dragging a larger parachute. The Firebee floats down slowly enough to land undamaged...
Primitive television systems used a "flying spot." A thin beam of light scanned the scene, and its reflected brightness as it crossed light and dark areas was turned by a photosensitive cell into an electrical signal. Changed back into light, the signal produced an image that bore a vague resemblance to the original scene...