Word: signalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not included in the advance text of his bombing-pause speech. Only an hour before he went before the television cameras did he order a U.S. Army Signal Corps man to put his climactic words on the TelePrompTers. Even then, Johnson said, "I'm not going to know probably until I get in there whether I'm going to use that speech...
...week Harvard Psychiatrist Mathew Ross reported that the college-age group runs a 50% higher suicidal risk than nonstudents in a similar age group, and he scolded the American College of Physicians at its meeting in Boston for not doing more to prevent such deaths. Individuals contemplating suicide normally signal their intention, he said, and doctors must be alert to the message. The most common clues...
Whenever the cost of borrowing swings to extreme highs or lows, financiers regard it as a signal of national ill-health. Last week interest rates for long-term securities climbed to a level that clearly meant economic fever...
Casually, and with characteristic relish, he announced a series of major appointments guaranteed to make headlines. General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, was becoming the Army's new Chief of Staff. Did that signal a shift in the Administration's conduct of the war? Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy, was off to Paris as the new U.S. Ambassador to France. Did that signify a move to weaken the Kennedy forces, a new American approach to the intractable Charles de Gaulle, a fresh approach to the war on poverty...
...Matzeliger, a native of Dutch Guiana, laid the foundations of the shoe in dustry with his shoe-lasting machine, Norbert Rillieux greatly lowered the price of sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques...