Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arms race. Was the source of the arms race the deep mutual suspicion that H. Stuart Hughes stressed in An Approach to Peace? (If this is the case, an American policy of unilateral disarmament intiatives to dispell suspicion would evidently be sound). No, Aron attributes the cold war "permanent alert" to the frank realization on both sides that there will be no interval, such as Britain had in World War II, to reactivate defense industries when the stratagems of peace had failed. Each side realizes it may have to fight with what it has at any given moment. The mobilizations...
...week ago. CBS's Walter Cronkite noted that the President had violated diplomatic protocol by addressing foreign peoples directly without first notifying their governments. A British Broadcasting Corp. official complained that he was forced to disrupt the normal evening schedule on short notice. Foreign chiefs of state, suddenly alert to the prestige potential of broadcasting directly to foreign nations by satellite, began stirring. German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard immediately requested time to address the American people...
...night, a gentle deviate dressed in a dress. Of course, the playwright is not going to let this poor fellow immolate himself on the fence without giving the audience his maudlin credo: "Shakespeare, Florence [the city in Italy], someone in the park. That's what I believe in." Alert the park department...
...activity through a complicated chain of communication. A freshman who had smoked marijuana was overheard by his when he discussed it with a friend during spring vacation. The irate parent contacted the president of the local Harvard Club, who in turn called a member of the administration here to alert him the situation...
...keep their German shepherds mean, hungry and on the alert for escapees, East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...