Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office, Davis grabbed a phone, put in another call to Governor Knight, who was sitting in the Hancock's flag plot room and (charged Davis later) "taking tea." Despite the fact that there were two open radiotelephone lines aboard the ship, Davis says he got a busy signal. After arguing futilely with an adamant telephone operator, Davis phoned Knight's Capitol offices for permission to break into one of the lines. At 11:12 Goody Knight came to the phone...
...danger of stopping the heart is that if the surgeon inadvertently puts a stitch through a nerve bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
WHRB, located in the basement of Dudley Hall, has always been a student owned and operated non-profit commercial radio station. Legends have sprung up to the effect that our signal is "sent through the steam pipes" in some mysterious fashion; actually, the radio signal is impressed on the lighting circuit of each dormitory in the steam tunnels under the University, and these tunnels also contain the lines with which we can send a signal from such places as Sanders Theatre and New Lecture Hall back to the studio, where we can either record it for future use or broadcast...
Crowning Blow. Last week Pooley and pals celebrated a signal victory. By a margin of 2,754 votes (out of a record 34,883), Telles routed the incumbent mayor, and his People's slate won by a landslide in the Democratic primary, which in Texas is really election. Juan Smiths rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces...
...ranging dogs in a mellow Alabama quail meadow, the mixed gallery of millionaires in fancy dress and farmers in ripped dungarees seemed remarkably lenient. No one winced when a dog, quivering at the smell of quail, froze into a sloppy point or broke before his handler's signal...