Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Molly is quite unlike any play that Britain's Simon Gray has written. Seeing the work in a late dress-rehearsal phase of its world première at Spoleto, one cannot properly evaluate the drama's full potential, but cannot fail to mark a signal change of direction...
...then for reasons unclear suddenly roil to the surface, disturbing the waters and making reasoned discourse impossible. Talking to plants was a minor instance a couple of years ago. People who had always talked to their plants abruptly decided to come out of the closet, as if at a signal. Before the week was out, it seemed, the air waves and the public prints were awash with the commentary of glibsters who said that, by George, something, ; maybe whisky vapors, made talked-to plants grow better. By the end of a fortnight, sturdy, feet-on-the-ground Undecideds who knew...
...time against Adams. In the key play of the game, Winthrop is deep in its own territory, and quarterback Alan "Doble House" Dawes drops back to pass. He's caught by a defender on the one-yard line, but referees Frank Crimmins and Jim Gostylo--both Winthrop House members--signal safety, giving Adams House two points and the ball...
...came as no surprise to anyone on the Chilean left: "It's raining in Santiago" was the agreed-upon signal that came over the radio informing U.P. supporters that the army was on its way. For months, the right had been creating an atmosphere of conflict; one coup had already been aborted. U.P. militants had already occupied factories and buildings in preparation for a coup, and in the Moneda Palace, Allende and the rest of the U.P. leadership viewed it as a final test...
...Chavis, who had earned a degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but hardly his first brush with Southern justice. From 1968 to 1971, while pursuing civil rights work, he had frequently been jailed on such charges as trespassing, driving with a faulty turn signal, aiding fugitives and disrupting public schools. All ended in acquittal or dropping of charges. In the Wilmington case, the appeals were turned down 16 months ago, and the ten were imprisoned, though the white woman was paroled early this year...