Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there any way to identify the psychotic killer before he snaps and acts? The doctors will only say: sometimes. Any violent personality change should signal an alert to family and friends?a habitually shy and quiet person who suddenly becomes aggressive and talkative, or the reverse. Other danger signs: depression and seclusion, hypersensitivity to little slights and insults, a change in normal patterns of eating or sleeping, uncontrolled outbursts of temper, disorganized thinking and morbid interest in such potential tools of destruction as guns or knives. Psychiatrists are quick to add that the appearance of even all those symptoms does...
...horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume is a tonic since "it helps keep the driver alert...
...Paper." Fortunately for headquarters, the resident, Dr. LeRoy Smith, 26, was more alert. "I picked up his head and looked at the nurse to see if she had noticed," Smith recalled. "I said to her, 'Get the paper.' " The doctor moistened his fingertips, rubbed Speck's blood-caked arm. "I saw the letter B. Then I rubbed some more and saw O-R-N." Recalling news accounts that Speck sported a tattoo, "Born to raise hell," Dr. Smith turned to the nurse, Sandra Hrtanek, 23, and said: "This is the fellow the police are looking...
...territory. Most often an airman is lifted out of difficult terrain by hoist. Each rescue copter has a 240-ft. cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North Viet Nam, waiting for a mayday call...
Most citizens would surely agree that Patrolman Lasky was the model of an alert, courageous cop in action. Civil-libertarians, however, were quick to ask whether his search violated Peters' constitutional rights. In a decision written by Judge Kenneth Keating, the New York Court of Appeals has just answered that question with a resounding no. It affirmed Peters' conviction and declared that Lasky deserves "our highest praise...