Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overriding steady tone. "I've been working with tape recorders for 23 years and I've never heard the audio completely replaced by a solid tone," he reports. This would happen only during a rerecording, he says. Such a tone could be deliberately created with an audio signal generator (a device used to inject a desired tone to test or adjust audio circuits), but this could be easily distinguished, he explains, from the sound generated inadvertently from fluorescent lights or an electrical cord. Thus it would be a foolish way to make the conversation unintelligible. Re-recording...
...midst of high affairs of state, Military Aide Chester V. (Ted) Clifton used to get a special signal. He knew what to do. He squared his shoulders, marched out of the room, returned with an important-looking folder, put it discreetly in the President's hand. Inside was a cigar...
Even more impressive was the showing of Big Red signal caller Mark Allen who set a new Ivy single-game passing record with a 27 for 56 performance, good for 395 yards and two touchdowns. Cornell, figured to be a serious contender before injuries wiped out the Red running game, staggered home with a disappointing 2-5 Ivy record...
...Crimson signal caller also has gained 1991 career passing yards, 20 yards more than Zimmerman's old mark...
What, finally, do all these plots have in common? Survival. As the lost soldier, as the wandering Jew, as the middle-class American who finds himself unexpectedly at the point of no return, Benny Beer is a combatant whose dog tags do less to establish his identity than to signal the fact that he is in a war to the death. As a 20th century man, Beer, even in peace, is a sort of P.O.W. Even at home he is a refugee Becker is given to spells of rhetoric and eccentric time skips. But in the end this very raggedness...