Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionary song "Grandola" over the land. The anthem, expressing belief in "equality on every face" and a Portugal where "the people take first place," carried a message that had rarely been heard in a nation which had suffered for 48 years under fascism. Fittingly, the song was the signal for those army officers--mainly captains and majors--committed to the cause of a socialist and democratic Portugal to take command of key military and government installations, and to overthrow the regime of President Marcello Caetano. "Grandola" was played and sung by the Portuguese many times in the days following...
...production itself is fairly interesting, with a bare, three-sided stage and an ingenious arrangement of hanging props that drop to signal scene changes. Even the proficient technical direction, however, fails to shed much light on the subject...
...center of a 120-mile-long, kidney-shaped area of land that rose as much as ten inches in the early 1960s. The phenomenon has earned the desert town a dubious notoriety. The Palmdale bulge, as the uplift is called, could be an early warning signal of a major-and potentially disastrous-earthquake...
...evidence patiently brought out by Prosecutor James L. Browning Jr. led them to believe that Patty was lying, despite the efforts of Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey and his staff. There was the photograph of Patty on the day of her arrest, defiantly flashing the clenched fist signal of the revolutionary. There was the testimony of Zigurd Berzins, the electronics technician who said he saw Patty retrieve two dropped ammunition clips and one or two cartridges for her carbine as she entered the Hibernia Bank-an act that conflicted with her testimony that she was carrying no live ammo...
...army headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring 28 (including four colonels), killing a passing civilian truck driver, destroying a dozen vehicles, and even shattering windows more than 300 yards away in La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace. The left-wing Montonero guerrillas claimed responsibility for the blast, which seemed to signal an ugly change in their strategy: a new willingness to risk the maiming or killing of innocent civilians...