Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November congressional elections the Democrats would improve their present 49-to-47 margin in the Senate by six to nine seats, would improve the present 233 to 198 in the House of Representatives by 30 to 50 seats. Eying 1960, states-rights-minded Southern Democrats got a special signal out of the Democratic prospects: if big Democratic years are ahead, they intend to fight for a veto power on the 1960 Democratic candidate. Republicans glumly talked of little more than cutting off their losses...
...square yard (60 is a bad infestation) in fine, husky condition because of the mild winter and heavy rain. In a few weeks the hoppers, now no bigger than a grain of rice, will be big brown adults, devouring every green thing in sight and, as if on signal, taking off in cloudlike migratory flight to other fields...
...bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition was only the clock, and he fell a few ticks short. Time for the mile: 3:58.1. Tabori was second, a shade on the wrong side of four minutes. Well beaten...
...Central Control that all three stages had fired successfully, that the third stage was sailing along faster than the 18,000 m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course required to pop its 21½-lb. satellite into orbit, instead streaked almost straight up for about 2,000 miles and disappeared...
...squared volcanic rock, without mortar, these fortress towers, called nuraghi, range back to the time of ancient Troy, were in use until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found a whole catalogue of a bronze age culture in the form of skillfully made miniature sculptures...