Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award is in the form of a medal and is for "signal achievement," referring to Miss Albright's triumph at the World Figure Skating Championships in Switzerland last winter...
...questioning will concern Furry's work in the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N. J. where McCarthy says he has discovered evidence of espionage...
...guards passed out; the captain and the other guard went on drinking. Athanassios refilled their glasses, this time adding a dash of morphine. Within five minutes both were asleep. Athanassios lit two lanterns as a signal. Ashore, his waiting brother Christakis hastily stripped off his clothes, dodged into a doorway to avoid two approaching soldiers, then darted naked across 50 ft. of waterfront road to dive into the icy harbor. Soon afterward, Athanassios hauled him aboard the Dynamo. With engine snorting, running lights burning bright and passengers sweetly sleeping, the two brothers then set out for Greece...
Beneath the cars' hoods lurked the apparatus of speed-superchargers, twin ignitions, high-compression engine heads, four-barreled carburetors, horsepower piled on horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...
Culver also mentioned that signal-caller Jerry Marsh had "awful good football sense." But, according to Jordan, "It was the line that called Culver's touchdown play. They kept saying, 'We could do it,' before the fullback launched his 34-yard sprint...