Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Possibly to signal a willingness to cool the conflict, U.S. withdraws sizable reconnaissance force from A Shau Valley...
...largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
While the defense was busy pushing Dartmouth all over the field, Harvard signal-caller George Lalich scrambled and passed to set up all three Harvard touch passed to set up all three Harvard touch-downs...
...fanned across the nation. The vigilantes have invaded even the theater, most of whose producers and actors sympathize with the left. In the midst of one performance of the theater-of-violence satire Roda Viva, a whistle blew and men armed with clubs, pistols and boxing gloves rose on signal, smashed chairs, cudgeled the audience and actors, ripped up the scenery, stripped the leading lady and sent her scurrying nude into the street...
...held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand by," said Schirra, "it looks like he's trying to signal us." He then whipped out a harmonica and began to play Jingle Bells. The UFO, of course, was Santa Claus...