Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May François Billoux, veteran Communist Deputy from Marseille, was called to the Kremlin. Alarmed by the prospect of German rearmament, he ran up the signal for Approach No. 1: hardcore violence to wreck NATO before it is too late (TIME, June 9). Billoux's instructions were published in the Reds' official monthly, Cahiers du Communisme: 1) no more popular-fronting with the bourgeoisie-they have become "chambermaids of American imperialism," and must therefore be destroyed; 2) less talk and more action...
...child wears earphones and holds electrodes in his hands. At first the operator sends a strong sound signal through the phones and then gives the youngster a slight electric shock (only one stage stronger than a tickle). This makes the child's hands sweat so that they serve as better conductors of electricity, and the amount of current they conduct is recorded by an automatic inker...
After a few such sounds and shocks, the child is conditioned to associate the two. Next, he gets a sound signal but no electric shock. If his hands sweat again, it proves that he has heard the sound and is reacting to it just as he did when it was always followed by a shock. If the operator gives him such a weak sound signal that he cannot hear it, his hands do not sweat and the inker shows the limit of his hearing powers. Doctors at the infirmary have tried the sound and shock test on 500 children aged...
Powell M. Cabot, University Marshall, called for Sheriff Howard Fitzpatrick to signal the start of the ceremonies. Fitzpatrick struck the stage with his scabbard and said "the meeting will be in order...
Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO-a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island...