Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings of barbed wire guard the lonely radar post, and behind them a detachment of uniformed Signal Corps men live a life as secret and isolated as monks...
...blueprints seemed so crazy. "Why build a cellar big enough to drive through with a dump truck?" he asked, and was told to mind his own business. Others recalled seeing friends whom they knew to be engineers suddenly appearing at the station wearing the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Why? An amused shrug was the only answer questioners ever got-but last week the Russians thought they had found a better...
Leaked to the world press and foreign diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly the campaign was directed against the dead Stalin, and busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine...
...Aaron '57, who has directed such successes as last year's The Sea Gull and Threepenny Opera and this season's Death of a Salesman. Aaron believes that the unexpected success of last year's Threepenny Opera, given by the Lowell House Opera Society, was the turning point--the signal which opened the way for the present burst of activity...
...Pink Shells. It was but a beginning. In a cave, the entrance to which was marked by a ship's red lantern, dismayed Captain Overton found many "immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...