Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another section leader said the Lipsey and Steiner book was just as challenging as Samuelson's book and the switch did not signal a lowering of standards for the introductory economics course...
Brown was debating coming back for his junior year on the football team when offensive backfield coach Robert Horan persuaded him to "just go through camp and give it a shot." Brown came into camp as the number five signal caller. His goal was to be the backup quarterback behind Tim Davenport. When camp was over Brown had indeed risen to the number two spot...
Long before the first dormitory opened to signal the start of a new academic year, tens of thousands of parents had received those familiar and depressing envelopes with word from the college of their offspring's choice: tuition, room and board. All due immediately...
...noon the two sets of ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter's Square. But the flue above the stove was broken, and black smoke seeped through the chapel, partially obscuring Michelangelo's famous frescoes. For a quarter of an hour, the assembled Cardinals coughed, covered their mouths and rubbed their eyes until two windows were opened to clear...
...hours later, having replaced the white miters with red birettas, the Cardinals reassembled to begin making that decision. Promptly at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, Jean Cardinal Villot, Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the vacant Holy See, gave a signal and the 70-member Sistine Chapel choir started to sing Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit). The Cardinals then filed into the Sistine Chapel. There, beneath Michelangelo's great fresco The Last Judgment, they seated themselves on facing rows of plain chairs at twelve long tables. There were too many Cardinals this time to accommodate them with the traditional canopied velvet thrones...