Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myth Enhancing. He scored some successes but more signal defeats, largely because he lacked artillery to compete with the French in set-piece conventional battles. After a stinging series of losses in 1951, Giap admitted that he had tried to push into Phase 3 too soon; he retreated into the hills and paddies to reassemble his forces. The chance for annihilation came at Dienbienphu, when the French, thinking Giap still had no heavy artillery, dropped paratroops into a valley, hoping to draw Giap into combat. But Giap had obtained over 100 American 105-mm. howitzers from the Red Chinese, carted...
...substantial." A few turn their room lights off and on in unison and then rush outside making animal noises, but fail to capture the popular imagination. One day later 1000 students gather in the Square and shout "Jaywalk! Jaywalk!" They then repeatedly cross Mass on the "Walk" signal...
...city of Lakewood (pop. 67,000), near Long Beach, the officers kept a particular watch for an ingenious new type of alarm beacon mounted atop homes and stores. The 1,000-watt beacons, visible five miles in daylight and twelve at night, light up either manually or automatically to signal break-ins or holdups. Within 21 minutes at most, the sheriff's men expect to swoop down on the scene, spot suspects with powerful floodlights, direct approaching earth-bound cops or, if necessary, land to give assistance...
...Washington," mused an Administration aide last week, "there are very few half times and no fourth quarter. Every once in a while we need a new platoon." As if on signal, the changeover is now taking place in the U.S. foreign-policy establishment...
Many a layman who has just had an electrocardiogram takes his doctor's verdict of "ECG normal" as an assurance of a long and healthy life. Cardiologists know better. The repetitive squiggles on the ECG paper are simply a graphic recording of the electrical impulses that signal the heart's contractions. While an ECG will reveal some types of heart abnormality, and specifically whether a man has recently had a heart attack, it has limited predictive value-a fact made dramatically clear in the case of Lyndon B. Johnson, then Majority Leader of the Senate...