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Word: signalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those may be harsh words, but they encompass a harsh situation. The very fact that they are being said in public should signal a more realistic approach to the war, to the enemy and-not least -to the American public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Cards on the Table | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...peace proposals in starkly uncompromising terms. The U.S. sowed mines in the mouths of North Viet Nam's rivers, lobbed shells across the DMZ, ordered Navy vessels to interdict coastal targets and local shipping in Operation Sea Dragon. Two weeks ago, President Johnson gave Navy jets the "go" signal to attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Cards on the Table | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...increasing pressure on undergraduates to produce original research--in tutorial or on a thesis--makes more and more perplexing the nonsense of distinguishing them from the rest of the scholarly community. It is also becoming more and more maddening--maddening to watch the lights of Widener's reading room signal its 10 p.m. closing when one is only half way through a 200-page article, maddening to take extensive notes on a work one could just as well read at leisure in one's room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shelved Books | 5/3/1967 | See Source »

...paper might be able to arrange a G.M. courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that would satisfy the guest speaker: Auto Critic (Unsafe at Any Speed) Ralph Nader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1967 | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value is left on the surface any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Souvenir Detectors | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

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