Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened at a Labor Party rally in Glasgow's Queen's Park. Scarcely had Gaitskell begun a routine political speech than 300 youthful ban-the-bomb hecklers arose from their seats at a signal, marched to the speaker's stand waving placards and chanting slogans. A woman lifted a baby toward Gaitskell, yelled: "I want my child to live!" Snapped Gaitskell: "So do I. and I have two daughters...
...best way now available for measuring the distance of an object far out in space is to bounce a radio signal off it and measure the time it takes for the reflected pulse of radio energy to return. This time interval, multiplied by the speed of light (which is the same as the speed of radio waves), gives the round-trip distance. But the speed of light, complains Dr. Lowther, is known only with the inaccuracy of three parts per million...
...goes well, the sound of a bamboo drum will break the jungle silence just before dawn. At the signal the "firepower" detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...
...international commission controlling the routes to Berlin, but they would have no veto power over the travel of U.S., British and French forces along those routes. As "agents" of the Russians, East German cops could stand at the border barriers and direct traffic-but only so long as their signal was always...
...moon. The scientists got no television pictures of the moon as planned; they could count no ' meteorites nor could their carefully packed moonquake meter land in working order. Discouraged, one National Aeronautics and Space Administration official lamented: "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." But idiot or not, for the first time, the U.S. had actually hit the moon with a missile-a missile that destroyed itself and its cargo in a 6,000-m.p.h. impact...