Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...protect it against enemy attack, the Titan must be stored underground, and requires a complex of elevator platforms, guidance antennas, fuel-storage and loading systems, and interconnecting tunnels. Once the alert comes, the missile is fueled in minutes and readied for firing. When the word is given, massive doors open at ground level and the Titan begins to emerge, rises until it is ready to blast off on its 5,500-mile journey...
...Gates call a military alert from Paris on the very eve of the crucial summit meeting...
...Gates had just learned, with the President, that Khrushchev planned to scuttle the conference. "This communications alert was not an act that was either offensive or defensive. It was a sound precautionary measure." He cleared it with Ike, notified Secretary Herter, then flashed the word to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No troops were recalled from leave, nor were any forces moved, though some local commanders took optional precautions (a Denver TV station put out a "scramble" call to fighter pilots). "Under the circumstances," said Gates, "it seemed most prudent to me to increase the awareness of our unified commanders...
...least of the colleges' admission problems is weighing-and sometimes deciphering-the messages that schools send in behalf of applicants. In the College, Board Review, Director of Admissions Jonathan Pearson excerpts some of the recent "recommendations" that inundated Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. ¶"Roger appears personable and alert-but he isn't." (No trouble with that one.) ¶"If you need him, take him, but don't expect too much. His father's a Dartmouth man." (Director Pearson cannot remember what happened to him.) ¶ "Walter is not an outstanding student, but his family background...
...that instant last week, the U.S. launched its biggest satellite. Roaring into near perfect orbit around the earth went Midas II, weighing 5,000 Ibs. with a 3,600-lb. instrument package. But Midas was more than a mere heavyweight monster. It was alive and alert, and in its nose was its reason for being: an infra-red sensor able to detect unusual sources of heat on earth or high in the atmosphere-and thus, by spotting exhaust flames, to give the U.S. warning of hostile missiles streaking toward it from distant lands...