Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leopard signal-caller has a reputation as a runner, and behind him in the "Pro-I" formation will be tailback Rick Craw and fullback Joel Crossrow, both of whom started all last year and averaged just over three yards a carry...
...defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which he smilingly explains is "a last-ditch weapon in case we are overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns around to fire on Gio Linh itself in an attempt to blast the North Vietnamese right off the backs of the defenders...
...beacon on top of the great rock flashes out its insistent and seemingly perpetual message: dash dash dot, dash dot dot dot. In the nearby Spanish villages of La Linea and San Roque and across the Campo plains to the mountains beyond, the people know that the Morse code signal stands for the letters G and B: Great Britain. The light is a constant reminder to the Spaniards that Gibraltar is British, as it has been ever since Britain seized it from Spain 263 years...
...said. "But it all depends on how Hanoi replies to my suggestion." Judging from the diatribes from Hanoi, Peking and Moscow after the elections, it seemed likely that the North Vietnamese would reject it out of hand. Top Washington officials say that the Communists have made no attempt to signal any interest in talks...
With the balloon in place, the ECG signals were fed into a relay to regulate the pump's timing. When the patient's left ventricle contracted naturally, it sent a modest amount of blood into the aorta, but under insufficient pressure. A fraction of a second later, when her aortic valve had closed, the ECG signal made the pump fill the balloon with helium. This forced the blood in the aorta not only up and down, but also back to the roots of the coronary arteries, thus increasing the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Meanwhile the ventricle...