Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Francine called the police station, complained that the doctor had been punching her around, and gave the go-ahead signal. The bluecoats opened the confession, stared at it with gaping jaws, and then took off after the doc like Keystone Cops after a pie-thrower...
...linemen are checked as meticulously as the backs. Under Caldwell's system, the unsung offensive lineman has to be almost as alert as the quarterback in diagnosing the defense. In fact, the offensive lineman is often a signal caller for his own particular area, calling for specialized blocks in cadence with the quarterback. This innovation of "line quarterbacking," according to Caldwell, insures efficient blocking for an opening, and counteracts any sudden defensive shift. And since the single-wing attack depends on the precision and effectiveness of two-on-one blocking, Princeton players are taught a bewildering variety, from...
...other, or by allowing distrust and suspicion to spread like poison ivy,* or even perhaps by some single act of folly, we were to allow the friendship and cooperation of our peoples to fade, we might well wake up one morning to find that we had touched off the signal for the third world war to begin...
...Gulliver? Despite all this jockeying for position, it seemed likely that the Kaesong deadlock would yield to some sort of compromise and that the cease-fire line would be settled at last. But that would not, by any means, signal the end of the war. During all the fuss & fury over the cease-fire line, a time bomb in the agenda had been quietly ticking away: item 3, which concerns supervision of the truce arrangements, and which the U.N. believes must involve inspection by each side behind the opposing lines...
...crowded and solemn House of Commons, the black-gowned Clerk of the House rose to his feet and pointed wordlessly at Tory Backbencher Sir Hugh O'Neill, 68, Father of the House. It was the signal to nominate a Speaker for the new House of Commons, and Sir Hugh promptly rose to speak. His nominee: tall, white-thatched Tory William Shepherd Morrison, 58, a lean and likable Scots lawyer, known to M.P.s as "Shakes" because his first two initials are the same as Shakespeare's. Shakes has been M.P. for the constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury...