Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett has squeaked out two 1-0 victories over Adams and Quincy. Goalie Bob Waterboro has yielded only two goals and left-inside Peter Gagarin has booted both of Leverett's goals. Continuous hustle and a quick, alert, and coordinated sophomore halfback unit led by Andy Powell distinguish an otherwise mediocre squad...
...Tents. Around South Viet Nam's four present jet fields-Danang, Chu Lai, Bien Hoa and Saigon-are clustered most of the rest of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam. On the "hot pads" at the runway ends of each stand the silver planes, bombs aboard, on phased alert: the first wave is on five-minute call, the next on 15-minute call, then a group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets...
...regime stripped Kubitschek of his political rights for ten years, but his party was allowed to campaign, spurred on by his behind-the-scene direction from Paris. Its victory constituted an almost unbearable provocation for Brazil's military. At one point last week, army units went on combat alert across the country, and in front of the War Ministry in Brasilia appeared a quickly scrawled sign: THEY SHALL NOT RETURN...
...their way home from a civil rights march to downtown Eutaw, Ala., Negro demonstrators kept on the alert for any sign of danger from local whites. And still they were surprised. Suddenly a light plane made a low pass over the road and spewed out a heavy, yellow spray of insecticide. Coughing and gagging, the Negroes stumbled out of the fog with ruined clothing and numbing nausea. In an area noted for ingenious forms of Negro harassment, this was surely one of the most notable. Yet the story ran in only one Southern paper-the weekly Southern Courier...
...Crimson victory didn't come easily. Erratic passing during the first two quarters by Harvard's line and halfbacks gave an alert, hustling Columbia team chance after chance at scores...