Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could get away-Secret Service advance men had thoroughly cased Palm Springs for security. By the time he arrived, after a fast 9½-hour flight across the country, two transcontinental telephone circuits were in readiness, linking Ike's temporary office directly to the White House; the Signal Corps had installed a switchboard and Teletypes, and Government couriers were already arriving in Palm Springs, bringing official papers from Washington. Federal cops were everywhere, dressed in plain clothes, which in Southern California means slacks and flamboyant sports shirts (with shirttails out-to hide their revolvers...
...monotone, he talked in general terms of land reform and of law and order. Communists hooted, shouted and heckled: "Murderer, swindler, cheat." It took Scelba two hours to read a 45-minute speech. It was worse in the Chamber a few hours later. The Reds rose as though by signal, screamed. "Faker, liar! for shame!" and stomped out of the hall...
...almost on the button after the first mile: 4:24.5. But then he began to lag. At a mile and a quarter, as the crowd was already clapping him along with urging applause, Ashenfelter was more than 2 sec. behind. At trackside, Wilt gave him the thumbs-down signal. For the final lap, Ashenfelter never even bothered to look at Wilt. He just put his head down and ran as hard as he could...
...three pay-as-you-see systems use the basic technique of broadcasting "scrambled" signals that form a picture only when unscrambled by a special device attached to the receiving set. Telemeter Corp., 54% owned by Paramount Pictures, uses a coin box hitched to the TV set, which unscrambles the picture when the proper amount of money is inserted. Zenith Radio Corp.'s Phonevision, now awaiting an FCC decision, originally used a special unscrambling signal transmitted to the set via a telephone-line attachment, and depended on the phone company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate...
...ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more code, Cooper hurls back the answer, "No"--he would not prefer the cover of night to skulk into port. And so it goes...