Word: signallers
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...Lions will most likely replace the departed Witkowski--currently the fourth-string signal caller of the National Football League's Detroit Lions--with sophomore Peter von Schoenmarchk...
...civil rights leader had withheld giving what he called a "signal" to his supporters in the weeks following the Democratic convention. He was convinced that blacks were not being given a role within the party establishment that was commensurate with their voting power. Predicting that blacks could account for 30% of the votes cast for Mondale in November, Jackson said, "For that level of involvement, one wants equity and not just jobs." In a flip remark he later apologized for, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, an early Mondale supporter, expressed a similar frustration about the Democratic campaign last month, calling...
...economic indicators dipped .8% in July after falling 1.3% in June. The report marked the first time since early 1982 that the closely watched barometer of future economic activity has dropped in two consecutive months, and thus suggested that the economy is slowing. Ordinarily, that would be a danger signal, but the White House welcomed the Commerce announcement as a sign that moderating growth will encourage interest rates to fall...
...only does the signal promise to do away with opening lines and rejections, it may prevent gender gaffes. Four available wave lengths identify a bearer as being heterosexual, male or female homosexual, or interested in swapping partners with another couple. What if the Flashingee is only a 2 on a scale of 10? Easy, says Carmela Brunet, the 1959 Miss Germany who is the owner of Promotions et Qualité "Just turn off your machine until he is out of range...
Tennessee Williams imitates a monologue in one of his own plays as he spins out florid, ribald fantasias on his family life. His mother, Miss Edwina, screamed whenever she had sex with his father and believed that the rattle of garbage cans in St. Louis was a signal for a black uprising. At 94 she changed her name to Edwin and imagined that a horse had moved into her room: "She'd always wanted a horse as a child. And now that she finally had one, she didn't like...