Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians. Almost all of the burden of proof is on the proponent of the arms-control agreement. That does not trouble me; it is the way it should be. That is why I am not at all upset about the debate [over my appointment]. If it gives any signal to the Soviet Union, it certainly is a signal that the U.S. Senate is going to view with considerable seriousness any proposal that is advanced to them. They are not going to be easily receptive to anything that is negotiated...
...taste buds. Spread across the tongue, these clusters of cells are sensitive to the four major taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter and salt. Physiologists believe that parts of the food molecules actually fit loosely into receptors on the cells, somewhat like a key in a lock, thereby sending a signal to the appropriate center in the brain. If the structure of the sites could ever be determined precisely, chemists might be able to fashion matching molecules that produced the desired taste sensations...
Former pro gridder Frank Ryan took over the helm of the Yale athletic department this week. At a news conference yesterday, the signal caller for the Cleveland Browns from 1962-1968 proclaimed himself a "champion" of the Ivy League concept of balancing athletics with academics...
...seemed like an enterprising piece of reporting: that the Irish Republican Army might have learned how to detonate terrorist bombs in Northern Ireland by remote radio signal. The story added, helpfully enough, that if British army technicians could learn what radio frequencies the I.R.A. used, the bombs could be detonated prematurely...
...article appeared last May in London's Time Out, a trendy counterculture weekly, and the British government was apparently not amused. Last month Scotland Yard arrested two Time Out reporters, Crispin Aubrey, 31, and Duncan Campbell, 24, as well as a former British army signal corpsman, John Berry, 33, for violating the 66-year-old Official Secrets Act. The arrests might have drawn only the usual left-wing cries of protest if the government had not two weeks earlier completed deportation hearings against another journalist, American-born Mark Hosenball, 25, a former Time Out reporter now on the staff...