Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First details of the Russian shot came not from Moscow but from the irrepressible English astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell. "Listening to Apollo with one ear and Luna with the other," as Lovell put it, he tracked the loudly signaling Soviet ship with the 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope. Soon after launch, he determined that the spacecraft was traveling more slowly than previous Russian moon shots, was on a different trajectory and was transmitting "heaps" of information with a new kind of signal that he could not interpret. The slower velocity indicated to Lovell that the Russians were trying...
...latest battle triggered an exchange of protests. Moscow for the first time warned that it now was "compelled to take additional measures against the actions of the Chinese authorities." Diplomats in Moscow felt that the stern language was intended to signal that the Soviets were strengthening their border patrols and would retaliate vigorously against any future attacks...
...some slowdown. But New York's First National City Bank warned in its latest economic letter that, "to hold fast to a restrictive policy until the signs of an economic downturn are unmistakable means that the policy will have gone too far." Reason: economic indicators do not clearly signal a recession until after it has begun...
...been a harmless thing," says Alistair Cooke, a naturalized citizen who for three decades has reported on Americana to his native Britain. "Now it's something of an omen. Some of the flags are carefully pasted upside down-a reminder that the Republic is indeed flying a distress signal...
...means all bluenoses or comstockians, the explosion of salacity in cinema, theater and book rack is disturbing. Esthetically, pop sex may well reflect a stunting of the imagination, a dilution of artistic values, and a cultish attempt to substitute sensation for thought. Morally and psychologically, it may signal a deeper unease connected with a crisis of values. It also has its political aspects. Sex and politics have always been linked, but the connection can be carried too far ?as was demonstrated for all time by the Marquis de Sade, who was more of a revolutionary than a sensualist...