Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...models, were driven by experts. For weeks before the test, professional drivers had covered the course time & again, charting hills, corners and roadblocks, and timing traffic lights through the various towns to avoid gas-wasting stops & starts. During the test itself, some even had weather cars driving ahead to signal any sudden shifts of wind. Said Winning Driver Viland: "It's almost like a road race within legal speed limits...
...decided to stage an ice carnival for his pert blonde mistress Mimi. When the Moselle froze solid one night in 1879, he had the snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze, and the guests skated till dawn...
...before--the dog worked at a constant rate, and was rewarded at erratic intervals. Then came 10 minutes where the animal would not get paid off at all. During these 10 minutes, a light in the box flashed. All the dogs eventually learned that the light was a signal that work would go unrewarded. Thus, the dogs immediately ceased pressing the lever when the light went on. Next came another 15-minute period of constant response from the dog, provoked by the arbitrary reward schedule. Following this was five minutes during which a buzzer sounded. The dogs would...
...decided to enter his 50s and assume a middle-aged spread. The rumors are now confirmed by Poet Nash (born 1902) himself. Poem after poem in this new collection indicates a deliberate relapse into maturity; a new horizon shows both in waist and vision, along with such signal quirks as a grumpy dislike for opinionated young men and a difficulty in reading the phone book without glasses. There is even a blunt admission that when a man reaches his 50s he inclines to cast aside his jackboots and reach for his slippers...
Ever since Stalin's death, the Kremlin gang had been passing out a carefully blended mixture of honey and vinegar which seemed to signal a softening of Soviet foreign policy. The first clues to the new Communist policy were small and ambiguous. Last week, however, came two stronger indications of a new line...