Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woodward needed to see Deep Throat, the reporter would send a signal by moving a flower pot with a red flag in it to the rear of his apartment balcony; by prearrangement the two would then meet about 2 a.m. in an underground garage. If Deep Throat wanted to set up a meeting, he would send a message via Woodward's morning copy of the New York Times; on the lower corner of page 20, clock hands would be drawn to indicate the time of the rendezvous. Woodward says he never figured out how Deep Throat got hold...
NOSE JOB OF THE YEAR: Sting Screenwriter David Ward thumbing his in the con man's recognition signal featured in his script. Obviously he understood the true worth of his work better than the majority of the voters...
...signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody...
...signal that mood, the government has now begun to ease restrictions on energy use. It decreed an increase in oil supplies doled out to industry. To be sure, buildings still cannot be heated to over 68° F., gasoline stations must shut down on Sundays and holidays, and neon lights are banned after business hours. But those measures, says Toshinobu Wada, an official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, remain merely "to foster a psychology of energy conservation...
...meanwhile gave Maguire the "full steam ahead" signal on its contract review--prompting Cambridge City Councilor Saundra Graham to wonder publicly just how thorough the investigation will...