Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hirohito consented to pose with MacArthur for a Signal Corps picture. Then he and the Supreme Commander talked alone (through an interpreter) for 38 minutes. When he came out, the Emperor saw a cluster of U.S. correspondents, doffed his high hat and just perceptibly bowed...
Police Chief Filomeno Velazco gave the signal for mass arrests ("the revolution is only beginning"). Then Argentine democrats started ducking. The more practiced scooted for free Uruguay or the haven of foreign legations...
...Junior Miss" have been considered at all funny. As James Agee pointed out in a different vein, they are interesting in the same way that a slide of cancer tissue would be interesting. To all but the most hardened optimists, the uncanny accuracy of these shows would appear to signal, with the maturity of the children depicted, the final blow-up of middle-class society. But still they keep coming...
...denied that construction should be signaled off to as fast a start as possible. The estimated minimum U.S. need is 12.5 million new houses in the next ten years-400,000 units for 1946, 750,000 for 1947, over a million a year thereafter. But there was one big question: when would it be safe to give the signal...
...nervous, high-strung, bedridden woman (Agnes Moorehead), alone in her Manhattan apartment, keeps phoning her husband at his office, gets nothing but a busy signal. She finally persuades the operator to dial the number for her, is cut in on a conversation between two men making plans for murder. Cut off, she calls the police, who listen to her frantic tale with half an ear and hang up. After a good deal of hysterical hocuspocus, she decides that the two men had been hired by her husband to kill...