Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This weather's likely to give one a cold," Fell said to me as we walked to the living room to resume the interview. "However, my wife and I find that taking a large dose of vitamin C at the first sign seems to work. You know," he said to me confidenially, "that fellow who discovered this about vitamin...
...snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
Earlier in the week, as a sign of the Kremlin's displeasure with Carter's human rights stand, Pravda pointed to a plenitude of starving children, black ghettos, bugging and police surveillance in the U.S. and to other "brazen violations of the rights of American citizens." At the same time, the Soviets sought to blame Washington's criticisms on a Jewish conspiracy. Writing for Tass, Political Commentator Yuri Kornikov charged that "Zionist organizations" in the U.S. were more and more a major source of "anti-Soviet noise about the question of civil liberties in the U.S.S.R...
...Officials held their breaths as the spacecraft and its transporter-47.6 meters (153 ft.) long and 23.8 meters (78 ft.) wide -moved along East 10th Street through Palmdale and adjoining Lancaster. At one point, Rockwell workers had to rush forward with a chain saw to lop off a traffic sign in order to permit the shuttle to slip through. But even with such precautions, the clearance for the ship was often only a matter of inches. Still, the eleven-hour move went off without a hitch. Townspeople turned out enthusiastically to watch the shuttle pass. "Weird," said Mike Frazier...
...course, had to overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...