Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unlike Huntley and Brinkley, Walter Cronkite has no need of "sly side comments" to get his opinion across. The alert viewer can immediately detect his views on any given story by observing his facial expression at the conclusion of an on-the-scene report...
...tutors who were tested-many of them below eighth-grade standards in reading skills-picked up an average of 3½ years in reading ability. Faced with the responsibility of helping younger children, teen-agers with a previous record of hostile indifference to schooling were transformed into alert, highly motivated students. Matilda Medina, 18, who was two years below average in reading, went up ten points in her English grade as a result of teaching others, and now has college ambitions. "I put more effort into studying now-I know better what's really important in life," she says...
...sexual string quartet arranged for four players, each assigned a key to the same flat. The flat is on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and the wicked rejoinders wafting through the premises kept Broadway playgoers bouncing happily into the high-priced upholstery for a couple of years. Alert to the undertones of Muriel Resnik's comedy, even a prude could relax and enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented...
Football drills can get rather dull after a while, but Tyson kept himself alert by spending his days 40 stories high over Madison Avenue in Manhattan, doing construction work on the New York Life Building. It's the kind of work that adds creases to Yovicsin's brow...
...venture comes from many of the same sources that funded the Goldwater campaign: rubber magnate Leonard K. Firestone, Schick Razor president Patrick J. Frawley, former CIA chief John McCone (now a millionaire San Marino resident), and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and member of Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League. Reagan's father-in-law, Chicago neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, has also contributed heavily, and recruited support among right-wing friends...