Word: signpost
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Each one consists of a sand-filled, depressed area with a signpost in the center to serve both as marker and target. On opening day, dog owners and dogs lined up to use the inaugural facility in Serzedelo Corréa Plaza, but the first sampler was a three-year-old boy who wriggled away from his mother and hit the post perfectly. Said his embarrassed mother: "He has always been somewhat mischievous." As for the dogs, most of them went about their business as usual...
...symbolic imagery into clearer, simpler compositions, Smith developed his "line drawing" sculptures, made from strips of steel welded together into flat, picture-like compositions. His masterpiece in this genre is Australia (1951), a 9-ft.-wide, predatory sort of flying queen ant that stands on a pedestal, as much signpost as symbol. Australia occupies a niche of its own at the Guggenheim, for it marks the end of Smith's apprenticeship to foreign styles and his emergence as an innovator with followers of his own. Thereafter, his works became increasingly abstract, although to the last their profiles also ambiguously...
...only versatile; it is also easy to operate. When a cruising patrolman spots a car as much as a mile ahead and moving away from him fast, he waits for the suspected speeder to flash past a clearly defined landmark, such as an intersection, streetlamp, tree or signpost. The officer then flicks on the time switch, flicks it off when his quarry passes a second roadmark. Time is thus locked into VASCAR's computer. To measure the distance between the two reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point, turns...
...struggle that has been building between moderate and radical elements in the U.S. civil rights movement last week broke bitterly into the open. Standing at a crossroads where one signpost beckons with the ringing and controversial slogan "Black power!" (TIME, July 1), the movement dramatically aired its deep division in national meetings of its two biggest organizations. In Los Angeles, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the largest, the oldest and the strongest civil rights group, met to renew its dedication to moderation and responsibility. In Baltimore gathered the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the biggest among...
...Signpost to Murder, by contrast, has a neat surprise ending, though nothing that happens beforehand makes a solution seem urgent...