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Word: signal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there's the Harvard football team. Like my car, it has been (quarter) backfiring. It's offense has had to be rebuilt every time it's used because of signal caller injuries. Last week Burke St. John came back and the offense looked well-oiled to start the game but it needed a valve...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...meeting could signal a change in student reaction to the indictments two weeks ago, Nancy Carlson, director of the URI counseling center. Said yesterday...

Author: By Richard P. Nagel, | Title: URI Students Discuss Alleged Rapes | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

House crew is friendlier than its regimented cousin across the river. In a varsity boat, oarsmen signal they are ready to row by barking, "bow, two, three..." House oarsmen are more akin to the Mouseketeers: "Brad! Kathleen! Liz! Liam...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Back of the Head | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...starting Harvard quarterback for two full years, Brown has watched with a combination of amazement and disgust as one Crimson signal-caller after another has fallen with an injury. He said, "The joke in Norwood is whenever I see people they say, 'You got out of there just in time. How did you ever get out of there alive?' It's unbelievable. There's no way to describe how it's happened or why it's happened...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Larry Brown: From Soldiers Field to the Astrodome? | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...decline in popularity has fueled rumors that he may soon replace Barre. "He is an honest man, above all suspicion," Giscard responded when asked about Barre on a television interview. Coming from the President, who had lauded Barre as "the best economist in France," that faint praise appeared to signal a new arm's-length distance between the President and his Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Giscard Slips off Olympus | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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