Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 7½ hours daily and transmitted a comparatively weak, 7,500-watt signal. Last week RFE began to speak with a more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11½ hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also...
...Seoul's City Hall plaza meanwhile, there were polite speeches. A select group of 100 boys & girls cheered and clapped on signal. The policemen handed out small packets of candy and food and the children sang and played for a while on the ragged lawns. Before sundown the party broke up. Parents took their children on the long walk home. The children who had no parents to take them home melted back into their caves and cellars...
...Festival opened amid ancient pageantry that had not changed since long before Victoria's day. A huge bonfire blazed in London, to signal the lighting of 2,000 others throughout Britain. A crowd of 3,000 spectators jammed the new $6,000,000 Thames-side Royal Festival Hall to get the party going. Other Londoners by the thousands mingled with visitors from overseas to throng the huge, futuristic main exhibition site at South Bank, northwest of dingy Waterloo Station. There, where bombed-out slums once sprawled, they could goggle at the vast "Dome of Discovery," with its 74-inch...
Next day Taft rose to expound his own views and to signal a Republican shift in fire from Harry Truman to a more battered target, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. "The choice between MacArthur and Acheson is the only issue," Taft declared. It is a choice between "a more aggressive war against China or an appeasement peace...
...exit stood a line of American tanks which opened fire on the Gloucesters, mistaking them for Reds. An American liaison plane, which had been following their escape, saved the Gloucesters. Said Harvey: "The plane went down and sort of waggled his wings at the tanks -sort of a signal I guess-and they lifted their fire on to the Chinese machine guns. An American lieutenant said we'd have to make a run for it, so we climbed on the tanks and away we went, hell for leather, right through the Chinese...