Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contests with Northeastern have been mismatches in recent years. An unusually strong Crimson backfield and an alert defense put the game out of the Huskies' reach after little more than ten minutes of playing time...
...Lyra Tavares, Air Marshal Márcia de Souza e Mello and Navy Admiral Augusto Hamann Ra-demaker Grunewald. It was they who had backed the old army marshal last December, when he suspended civilian rule. Moving smoothly and unhesitatingly, the triumvirate declared a "state of alert," temporarily closed down banks and blithely brushed aside Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian lawyer who would normally have replaced an incapacitated President...
Greater Fervor. The "local control" granted individual orders and convents will probably mean far greater future variety among orders that still basically think of themselves as "contemplative." But most convents will probably now be more alert to the world around them, said Redemptoristine Sister Gertrude Wilkinson last week in Woodstock, Md., where representatives from 57 women's contemplative communities in the U.S. and Canada were meeting to discuss mutual problems. "We are becoming more conscious of the sufferings, problems and joys of the world," she explained. "If you know what you are praying for, you pray with greater fervor...
...shame" by boycotting state services; more than 200 people were detained for printing and distributing the leaflets. Determined to avert all demonstrations and minimize even passive resistance, the government urged all citizens to "watch out for disruptive elements," placed the army, police and people's militia on full alert and warned that anyone who failed to report to work would have to give a personal accounting. The nation's schools have become incubators of anti-Soviet feeling, even down to the elementary level (see color). Fortunately for Prague's rulers, the schools will be closed...
...sold late in the model year has already suffered a good deal of depreciation; in a few weeks it will be "last year's car," worth about $700 less for a compact and $2,000 less for some luxury models. During the next few weeks and months, the alert consumer can drive some hard bargains. The bargains may never live up to their billing as "the best deal yet," but there are certain guides to saving money...