Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles, Ronald Reagan tried to lay to rest the issue of his age (69) in one of the strangest interviews of the political season. He told the New York Times that he is as alert now as he was 20 years ago, is not forgetful and does not suffer from "blue" periods. Six doctors who have examined the Californian in recent years assured the newspaper that he is physically and mentally fit. Reagan promised that if he becomes President, he will resign at the first hint of senility. Said he: "I would walk away...
There were scattered but serious anti-Russian riots by the Uzbeks of Tashkent in 1966 and 1969 and the Tadzhiks of Dushanbe in 1978. In those cases, the Soviet army garrisons outside those cities were put on alert and used for crowd control. A U.S. Government Kremlinologist has hypothesized that if it were not for the presence of Moscow's military and security forces, as many as seven of the 15 Soviet republics would exercise their constitutional right to secede from the U.S.S.R...
...convoys of prisoners whom they can once again herd to the camp. "Anyone who waits with such single-minded devotion is always rewarded in the end." Sure enough, one day "an incredible horde" came tumbling out of a train, laughing and shouting. "In a moment Ruslan was transformed: flexible, alert, his yellow eyes sharp and keen." The dogs mistake for prisoners a group of construction workers who have come to turn the abandoned camp site into a factory. When the young people begin strolling toward the site in a disorganized column, some singing and even dancing to the music...
...left behind turned out not to be Michael Schwartz either, but Anthony DeRosa, 47, onetime bartender and a longtime pal of Jacobson's. When DeRosa himself tried to leave the prison, a guard asked him where his "client" had gone. Only then did prison officials belatedly sound the alert...
...Soviet threat must be countered, says Nixon, by a dramatic military buildup and by a willingness to confront the Soviets whenever they embark on some aggressive act. By way of illustration, he cites his own action in 1973 when he ordered a military alert to warn the Soviet Union against sending troops to intervene in the Arab-Israeli...