Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the remote hill country, the bal lots came in by relays of elephants to be counted in regional centers. In the guerrilla-plagued provinces of the north east, troops stood on full alert, and in Bangkok, the capital, some 3,000 uni versity students, describing themselves as "neutral observers," watched the polls to make sure all was fair and square...
...made public, but when Pueblo's sister surveillance ship, U.S.S. Banner, had earlier cruised off North Korea, Admiral Johnson requested half a dozen or more Air Force F-105 fighters for air cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably, Admiral Johnson did not request the same protection for Pueblo, which was stationed far closer to the Korean mainland. Instead, the F-105s remained on stand-by alert on Okinawa, 900 miles from the hapless spy ship. It was no excuse...
...Stand-by Alert. On the surface, it hardly seems to matter. Along Avenida Rio Branco in Rio de Janeiro large stylized figures decorate the curbs, bird cages in their outstretched hands. Huge, brightly colored sunflowers float above the traffic amid a profusion of plastic hummingbirds, cardinals and canaries. "Mother's Heart," an outsized paddy wagon so named "because there is always room for one more," is on standby alert-although the cops will haul away only the rowdiest of cariocas...
...ivory tower has become a laughably grotesque symbol of the contemporary institution of higher learning. What do we do in such troubled circumstance as we are now experiencing? I suspect the path of prudence for those of us in positions of responsibility for academic institutions is simply to stay alert, to keep mindful of our distant goals, and in a tumultuous sea, to navigate as best we can. Fortunately, difficulties of the unsettling kind now being experienced on many college campuses have remained relatively minor here. I should like to think this is an indication of the exceptional good sense...
...Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers when he first met Richard Nixon in 1953. Burns made no secret of his admiration for the then Vice President. In March of 1960, after he had returned to his old professorial post at Columbia University, Burns went down to Washington to alert Nixon to his own reading of the economy-based on his knowledge as a top expert on the business cycle. His warning: a recession was under way, and would reach its nadir in October, just before the presidential elections. "Unfortunately," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "Arthur Burns turned...