Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planners are studying the options open to them should Russia push into a "grey area" country-partial or full mobilization, activation of reserve units, immediate airlifting of additional U.S. troops to Western Europe, full-alert status for strike aircraft and for troops on the frontiers of the Communist world. Such moves would be coupled with a grave new warning to Moscow, and no doubt a call on the White House-Kremlin hot line...
...summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti-Soviet dissent. Later, as Prague grew tenser by the minute, he underscored the warning. At week's end the 6,000-man Prague garrison was placed on alert, and military policemen patrolled the streets carrying submachine guns. Though student leaders promised not to march in the streets, many led pro-Dubček sit-ins and announced they would join workers in special "Dubček shifts" at factories...
...working girl has the system licked. Every morning, Kim Novak gallops down a bridle path alongside the Ventura Freeway aboard Big Sur, riding bareback ("I like feeling my horse under me-I can tell if he starts twitching and seems nervous") on her way to Warner Bros, studios. While alert drivers gawk, Kim turns into a side street that leads to the lot. There she tethers Big Sur, goes to star in The Great Bank Robbery-a comedy western about a gang of thieves who make their getaway in a balloon...
...Dallas, Tarkenton connected on 16 out of 24 passes for 187 yds. and two touchdowns. Four of those completions went to Jones-and one was the biggest play of the game. With the score tied 14-14, the alert quarterback picked up hints of a blitz by Dallas linebackers; he changed his play call with an "audible" at the line of scrimmage and hit Homer with a soft, quick toss over the middle that went for 60 yds. and a score. Even when he was not catching passes, Jones was helping the Giant offense by drawing off as many...
Hales also caught the next scoring pass from Smith, this one for five yards as Harvard went ahead 21-0. On the following kick-off, Curry's deep man allowed the ball to bounce into the end zone, and the alert Lukawski had little difficulty falling on it for another touchdown...