Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...meeting's] purpose is to alert everyone about the existence of these sorts of incidents and to raise awareness and sensitivity," Matt said. "The only thing we can do is discuss this as a dorm...
After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
Nonetheless, the mass-circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda the next day achieved a bizarre fusion of conservative-radical coup rumors; it said ; military forces had been put on alert in early September to thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying...
...most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind drifted to Vaclav Havel, who I decided is an alert woodland creature. Jimmy Carter shines with a likable sweetness, but he is tougher than you may think...
...latest weapon in the antidrug war, Drug Alert was developed in Israel and is used by U.S. agencies for drug interdiction. It is being sold in a $49.95 kit for home use, which includes two spray cans designed to detect traces of marijuana or hashish and one for cocaine and crack. While Shertest Corp., the New York-based distributor, considers the test accurate, it suggests that any positive result be confirmed by a laboratory. The tattletale hues do not necessarily prove drug use; they only indicate that drugs had touched the tested surface. "We do not test people; we test...