Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened often during the week in such situations, an official on the podium flashed a signal to the 50-piece Lou Breese orchestra to strike up some noisy numbers to drown out the chants. In this case, with stunning inappropriateness after a debate on bombing, it was the Air Force's song, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder. The band ripped into Happy Days Are Here Again in the midst of a somber passage on Viet Nam during Humphrey's acceptance speech...
...past Russian guards by claiming that she was a charwoman. Others slipped out of the studios with vital transmitting equipment, which was soon wired up to put "Radio Free Czechoslovakia" on the air from a downtown Prague apartment. Because single transmitters are easy to track, engineers bounced their signal to transmitters at new locations every quarter hour, some of them supplied by the Czechoslovakian army. The underground radio network was such a total success that President Svoboda had to broadcast official statements through it last week; the Russian-occupied regular studios remained deserted and unused...
...manufacture of the machinery of war, man's ingenuity knows few limits. Even now, he is capable of putting orbiting H-bombs into outer space, ready to drop on signal. Tomorrow his navies may be prepared to fight at sea with ships capable of speeds up to 100 knots; his armies may be organized to battle on land with compact, radiation-proof robots...
...electrical impulses that serve as the heart's ignition system. Normally, a current is generated for each beat at the "sinus node" (situated where blood enters the upper right heart). The charge then passes through the walls of the two upper chambers (auricles), making them contract. Then the signal is channeled through the auriculoventricular node (where the heart's four chambers meet), and passes through the ventricles' walls...
...burden of higher taxes. In a move that most moneymen had not expected for weeks or even months, the Federal Reserve Board lowered its discount rate from 51% to 51%. Though the 1% change was as small as the Reserve Board ever makes it, it was an unmistakable signal of a general trend toward lower interest rates on all kinds of loans...