Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
Some difficulties on the job can be solved almost as soon as they are discovered. At Jones & Laughlin Steel, an alert foreman noticed that a worker constantly complained of back pains when he was under direct supervision, worked well when he was alone. The company's consulting psychiatrist confirmed that the man was "allergic to supervision"; he was put to work in a position of responsibility-by himself-and the pains disappeared. The boss may often appear as a maniacal tyrant to the worker who is grappling with his own problems. When a pretty Du Pont receptionist complained bitterly...
...impressive, hour-long BBC tapes flown from London to Canada and picked up in full from there by NBC (other networks ran only newscasts and, later, highlights), Commentator Dimbleby described the princess tensely awaiting the walk to the altar, reassuringly reminded his audience of "the comforting, tall, friendly and alert figure of the Duke of Edinburgh, on whose right arm she can rely." He sifted the guests ("What a tower of strength Lady Churchill is"), spoke as the Voice of England when the bride's coach left the Abbey: "All of us wish, as she goes back through London...
Third Column. Now thoroughly frightened, the authorities mobilized the 3,000-man air force for standby alert and threw companies of armed soldiers and sailors around the two big African residential locations at Cape Town to prevent another march on the city, a move that also kept thousands of Africans from their jobs in a city already partially paralyzed by lack of labor. In the countryside the entire citizens' defense force of 23,000 civilian reservists was alerted and 40% of its units put on active duty. Truckloads of skietkommandos, mostly young Boer farmers recruited from rifle clubs, sped...
...until after her death in 1958 that Mrs. Gunn's strange ways with pictures came to be known. An alert lady dealer, who had long been curious about the Gunns' collecting habits, decided to make a bid on their collection. But as soon as she found out the extent of what she had actually bought, she notified Art Patron Stephen Clark, chairman of the board of the New York State Historical Association. Mrs. Gunn's hidden hoard turned out to be a major historical windfall: more than 600 early American paintings that had been painstakingly collected over...