Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak and act for the U.S. and the free world, it was a challenge...
...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...
There was no dog to be seen--except a small mongrel attracted by the noise. It seemed to make no difference to those in the game. Finally, at a prearranged signal of "Itsgone," the fingers come down, the lights come on, and the players shuffle away from the quiet Charles...
Despite the President's attempt to throw a damp blanket over discussion of the Soviet feat, scientists, defense experts, and legislators have not hidden their concern. To them, the man-made moon is a signal for reappraisal of American defense structure and scientific ability...
...while the earth rotates inside it, so successive trips carry the sputnik over different territory. General Anatoly Arkadievich Blagonravov, head of a three-man Russian delegation to last week's satellite convention in Washington, says that it has four radio antennae and that the power of the radio signal is one watt (enough for a U.S. radio ham to talk with Australia). He estimates that the satellite's batteries will keep its transmitter beeping for about three weeks. There was nothing on board this first sputnik, said Blagonravov except the batteries and transmitter...