Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Signal Mountain, Tenn...
Torpid Crawl. That was as far as he got. At the A.B.A.'s 99th annual meeting in Atlanta last week, Spann won by a lopsided 260-to-59 vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A. onto a moderately activist course may have slowed to a torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion...
...debate was often blunt. Herbert Scoville Jr., a former assistant director of the federal Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, testified: "To continue to guarantee the supply of nuclear fuel to a nation that has demonstrated its intention to acquire nuclear weapons is to send the wrong signal to the rest of the world." He and other opponents of the sale want the U.S. to use enriched uranium-the nation is still the world's largest supplier-to demand concessions. As one condition of sale, for example, India might be required to sign the nonproliferation treaty...
...worn sneakers she looks like a gym instructor. The 170 people gathered before her rise and begin stretching. Then they start rubbing and kneading one another's necks and shoulders. As it turns out, the main thing on their minds is not physical fitness but singing. The woman signals with her right hand. Out comes a huge roar: "Ming ... mo!" A pause, another signal. "Ming mong!" And so it goes, now higher in pitch, now lower: "Ming mang...
...best seat was in anybody's home; any delegate whose podium view wasn't blocked by the camera platform found it blocked by the restless aisle parade of guards, guests and reporters. Chairman Robert Strauss did everything for TV except drop a handkerchief every few minutes to signal a commercial time...