Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deafness had more lasting reper-cussions on the conduct of baseball. The hand signals used by umpires to indicate whether a pitch is a strike or a ball actually originated with Hoy. Since he could neither hear nor speak, umpires began to signal as a matter of course...
...first signal that the game was renewed came last week when, in his first interview as President, Carter expanded his Inaugural Address pledge of "perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments." In a talk with the Associated Press and United Press International, he said: "I would like to proceed quickly and aggressively with a comprehensive [nuclear] test ban treaty. I am in favor of eliminating the testing of all nuclear devices, instantly and completely." As for the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, he declared that he expected "a fairly rapid ratification of the SALT...
...behemoth is apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
Aching eardrums are the least of the problems caused by the Soviet signal. Norwegian ship-to-shore radio has been blocked on occasion; telecommunications between Western nations and their embassies in Asia and the Middle East have been impeded. Radio operators as far away as Australia have been bothered by the transmissions...
...always there have been the multitudes ready for the opening kickoff. They include Americans in Europe who jet into Frankfurt to watch the game in German hotels that pirate the American Forces Network's signal. In Korea, 40,000 troops worry less about Panmunjom Truce Session CCCLXXXIII than the 5:30 a.m. live color broadcast of the Super Bowl...