Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded...
...indictment against Green charged that he received $10,000 and realized an extra $20,000 in insurance commissions from the contractors, and, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, practiced "fraud and deceptions" on the Army Corps of Engineers in connection with the construction of a $33 million Signal Corps depot in Tobyhanna...
...Signal Corps pigeoneers at Fort Monmouth, N.J. got ready to sell their charges to private buyers, they held to one secret hope: one fine day all 1,000 well-trained birds would home into Fort Monmouth and settle daintily all over the electronics boys' fancy antennas...
...ready." For ten minutes, as the surgeon removed the growth and sewed up the wound, Dr. Kroger kept on intoning reassurance to the patient and inducing her to lapse into a deeper hypnotic state. When the operation was over, he alerted her out of it by a pre-arranged signal-a touch on the shoulder. She had no memory of pain, felt no nausea or other discomfort...
...segregationists took Kasper's acquittal as a signal to go all out against integration. The Citizens' Council put up its own candidate for mayor, organized a junior auxiliary in the high school. States' rights stickers began to turn up everywhere. White students appeared in class with Confederate flags sewn on their sweaters. They cried ''Nigger bitches'' and "Dirty nigger whore" at the Negro coeds. They threw eggs and stones, poured ink over the Negroes' books and into their lockers. Whenever their enthusiasm failed, members of the White Citizens' Council were ready...