Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Mourning Day. Afraid of civil war and preparing for a showdown, the government canceled all leaves for the 20,000 members of the South African police, placed the members of auxiliary white defense forces on a stand-by alert. Indoor or outdoor meetings of more than twelve persons were declared illegal (exception: a political rally of 40,000 addressed by Prime Minister Verwoerd, who complained that most of the unanimous outside criticism came from "the ducktails of the political world .... Good and nice people are mostly quiet"). African political organizations were outlawed. Robert Sobukwe and eleven of his Pan-African...
...unsedated physician was alert enough to step behind the curtain to examine the model brain's wiring. Said he: "Anybody who can keep this thing running must also be able to give firsthand testimony on the various tranquilizers. It would make a nervous wreck out of me without my Miltown...
...commander, Rear Admiral Frank W. Fenno, sent fire trucks to help extinguish the blaze, then gave more than half a ton of food. The Navy's thanks: statements by the base workers' union boss, Machinist Federico Figueras Larrazabal, that "workers at the naval base have to be alert to unmask any maneuver of the North American imperialists similar to that they performed when they blew up the Maine." As of last week, the Navy fired Figueras for this and similar remarks...
...lovingly recalled. There was a lot of big talk about stopping Kennedy in Wisconsin April 5, or if not there in West Virginia May 10. But the plain fact was that Kennedy's rivals were scared. Nobody was panicking yet, but every Democrat was operating on a yellow alert...
Nevertheless, SAC crews play their deadly game of Beat the Clock as if each alert were the real thing. And when they get the sign-off, they return to their moleholes to await again the sound of that eerie klaxon; it could come again in five minutes or five hours. Usually, though, the alert crews can count on enough time to clean up. "The only time you dare take a shower," says one pilot, "is right after an alert. Some day they'll fool us and blow the horn again just after we get back...