Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether Ferren's departure will finally signal a period of order, after the last decade's splash, leaves Ferren, for the moment, unworried. Says he: "For me, painting was desperate for a long time. There was a kind of longing for salvation. Here, somehow, I have...
...hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find him in emergencies, and signal to him when he is needed. Then his British-born wife Evelyn takes the wheel and deftly maneuvers the boat into shallow water so that her husband can wade ashore for his call...
...computer has even learned to adjust to the ticker's habit of dropping digits when it falls behind the trading pace on the floor, can recognize and signal mistakes in quotations in a matter of seconds. The system is so swift that it would be possible to average all the 1,500 shares listed on the exchange, on an hourly basis. But Standard & Poor's feels that the new index will do just as well, since the stocks not in the index are little traded, have little effect on the market...
About the question with which your Feb. 4 Zen article ended:* I would bat my eyelids three times fast, three slow, and three times fast-the international distress signal (SOS). Then, when the friend had pulled me up, I would let him feel the back of my hand...
...tiny smudge of lipstick, spotted by the eagle eye of an Associated Pressman and duly reported by cable and radio last week, was an all's-well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...