Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very well start with jokes and in eight minutes get into a serious subject. But with respect to the basic question of what an announcement speech of this kind should be, the announcement was what I wanted it to be. I felt it should be a clear signal of where my priorities lie, where my commitment is, and of my determination to pursue it. In this sense, I wanted it to be a tough speech, since this would be for some time to come the only national audience I would have...
...Family is not only one of the most successful of the recordings that have been translated from TV series, such as Sesame Street and Flip Wilson. It also seems to signal a return to the popularity of comedy albums such as those that flourished in the early '60s. Another fast-selling LP is David Frye's Richard Nixon Superstar. Even Vaughan Meader, the man who started the trend in 1962 with The First Family, is back with a satirical vision of Jesus' return to earth titled The Second Coming...
...cigarette lighter like the one which she had given the butcher. She slips it into her pocket. Later a police inspector tells her that the woman had been killed only moments before the teacher found the body. Clearly the butcher meant the woman's death as a signal, and the teacher accepts it as such. But instead of fright, she feels a strange excitement that makes her lead the killer...
...bilateral reductions. Agreement was reached on both points, then underscored by the appointment of former Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, 66, as Ambassador to NATO. Kennedy has been ambassador-at-large since he stepped aside in favor of John Connally at the Treasury last February. His appointment is meant to signal U.S. allies of American resolve to work within the European alliance, regardless of the new overtures to the East...
...Signal. Last week, for five straight days, U.S. fighter-bombers, directed from a command center at Udorn airbase in Thailand, braved poor weather and wicked antiaircraft fire to fly hundreds of sorties against missile sites, airfields, supply depots, staging areas, and other targets in North Viet Nam's southern panhandle. It was by far the longest and roughest of the more than 100 strikes, large and small, that American aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi...