Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the junta was apparently in control of Bangkok, but it faces dangerous threats. Communist guerrillas are active in Thailand's northeastern provinces, and Radio Hanoi has denounced the coup as a plot between "American imperialists" and Thai "reactionaries." It was an ominous signal for a nation from which the remaining U.S. forces pulled out just last July, leaving the Thais to their own devices...
When the sensors inform the electronic brain that the engine has reached operating temperature (180° F.), that the auto is in third gear, has reached 45 m.p.h., and is not accelerating, the little box sends out a signal activating a key-and-slot device that locks the exhaust and intake valves shut and cuts off fuel to the affected cylinders. The pistons in these cylinders continue to move up and down, and the spark plugs fire, but no fuel is burned. The cylinders are not supplied with the fuel mixture as long as the driver maintains cruising speed...
Yale evened its record at 1-1 with a solid 21-0 win over winless UConn paced by substitute quarterback Bob Rizzo and the two touchdown drives he engineered in the second half. Rizzo rallied the favored Elis from a 10-7 halftime deficit, replacing regular signal-caller Stone Phillips in the third quarter...
...most prominent is quarterback Jim Kubacki, whose 1975 rise from second-string junior varsity signal-caller to varsity and nationally acclaimed (4th in the nation in total offense) honcho is by now well known to anyone who watches the Prudential College Scoreboard...
Though muted, the bishops' statement was a clear signal of support for Ford. That would not cut deeply with many Catholics: the polls show that a majority of them oppose a constitutional amendment on abortion. But the bishops' statement might well make a difference with some of the urban, blue-collar, largely Catholic voters in the industrial states who are soft on Carter for other reasons, including his Southern Baptist evangelicalism. The abortion dispute could also profoundly influence the other right to lifers, many of whom are non-Catholics. Though they include fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, Mormons and others...