Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FranCisco's pro football 4gers, Celeri & Co. posed for photographers at Berkeley's San Pablo Playground, and next day slipped quietly into Cal's huge Memorial Stadium for practice. California Coach Pappy Waldorf wasn't supposed to be helping, but he was-with calisthenics, signal drills and defensive patterns. Said Celeri, who, like LeBaron, was getting a $2,000 guarantee for his labors: "We want to win this one badly . . . Even if the game doesn't actually mean anything, we'll look awful foolish if we lose...
Last week graduate students in the electrical engineering department at Britain's Birmingham University were putting finishing touches on a "detwinkler" to make the stars hold still. The detwinkler uses photoelectric cells to keep watch on the star image. When the image starts to wander, they signal a pair of electric motors which move the photographic plate back in line. As far as the plate is concerned, that star doesn't twinkle any more...
...link with the past, he kills his own father, one of his political prisoners. In what Author Warner intends as appropriate irony, a prison cast is rehearsing for a performance of King Lear as the novel's climax approaches ; the end of the play is to be the signal for the Governor's Putsch...
...Public Instruction, the Governor's political rival, is also waiting for the play to be over. When Mr. Goat, as Lear, comes on bearing Maria as the dead Cordelia, it is obvious that Maria is indeed dead; the Governor has killed her. At the Minister's signal, his crew fire a rocket broadside which kills the Governor, Mr. Goat,and almost everyone on the island...
Even before World War I it was plain that the artistocratic Richardsons had run their course. When daughter Caroline suddenly married Jim Conway, a poor-but-ambitious townsman with super sex appeal, it seemed like a signal for the whole family's disintegration. Then old Mr. Richardson died ingloriously in a hotel room from a surfeit of food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune...