Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prearranged signal, a Moslem sentry on duty let him and a handful of the rebels into the courtyard. A Moslem sergeant and corporal emerged stealthily from one of the huts and greeted him. Each set up a machine gun and trained it on the door of the hut where the Europeans lay sleeping. Abd el Krim stole into another hut, shot the French commander and his top sergeant dead in their beds. Wakened by the noise, the other soldiers jumped up, grabbed their rifles. The two Moslem noncoms mowed them down in the doorway. Before relief could arrive, the rebels...
...past, Nationalists had called the unnerving ladies rude names ("foolish virgins," "weeping Winnies") to no avail. This time Strydom ordered his Cabinet ministers to ignore them. A dozen women entered Parliament itself, and at a signal put on their black sashes, in mourning for South Africa's constitution. An usher demanded that they remove the sashes. They complied, then calmly took black artificial roses from their handbags and pinned them to their dresses. The usher demanded that these be removed too, but the sergeant at arms nervously ruled that the black flowers could be worn. The women knew their...
...Control Engineering, W. G. Rowell of Scully Signal Co. and A. B. Van Rennes of M.I.T. describe a method that they have invented for "watching the watchman." The monitor as usual watches all operations of the machine, but when everything is going well, it does not merely sit back and give a "safe" signal. Instead it gives a rapid alternation of safe and unsafe signals. Unless this alternation continues, proving that the monitor is alert and on the job, the machine will shut itself off. If any part of the machine fails (including its readiness to shut itself...
...serene. Debate on the natural-gas bill (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) was nearing an end, the opposition was wheezing its last, the votes to pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
...said Cherberg, from the first game of the 1955 season. While beating Idaho, 14-7, Cherberg's Huskies set a conference record of eleven fumbles. Only after watching movies of the game did Cherberg discover that his backfield coach, Jim Sutherland, had changed the center's snapping signal, while keeping the information secret from the rest of the team...