Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taxes. For any fellow Republicans who thought the election was the signal for a tax-cutting field day, Ike laid down a clear, firm edict: budget cuts come before tax cuts...
...wooden floor, placed his sandals carefully by his side, sat down and assumed the cross-legged "lotus position." Then he passed out a signed statement: "If anything wrong happens to my physical body, nobody should be held responsible but myself." At Narayan's signal, the pit was closed with wooden planks, and ten feet of earth were shoveled...
Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who prefer to die in dignity for the sake of liberty to a life of dishonor in a realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always...
...into six large barns on the outskirts of Oradour and drove the women & children into the church. A large smoke bomb was exploded inside the church and, as the women & children panicked, the SS men mowed them down with machine guns. The explosion of the smoke bomb was the signal for the soldiers stationed outside the barns to fire point blank into the massed groups of men. The soldiers then walked in among the fallen bodies, firing with their pistols on any that seemed alive. They piled hay and bedding over the bodies and burned them. Systematically they set fire...
...Momi's years of service, the towermen could remember her making only one misstep-that terrible time when, by accident, she stepped on a signal button on the tower control panel and brought a fast express screeching to a stop on the tracks below. Tower Master Eugenio Olivieri picked Momi up by the scruff of the neck that day and threw her out of the window, but Momi, battered and limping, returned...