Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief rise of barometric pressure. In its last weak form, the wave can cover thousands of miles before it becomes too faint for microbarographs to distinguish it from natural variations of atmospheric pressure. The U.S. undoubtedly had many seismographs and microbarographs stationed around China to be on the alert for its maiden test...
...mechanisms delivers medical gases under extra pressure to the doctors inside. As a further safeguard, the four chambers at the Hennepin Hospital are all equipped with closed-circuit TV, so that monitors on the outside can watch everything that the operating team does on the inside, and sound an alert if normal operating procedures should be violated...
...wonder. In its plot, Fail Safe is strangely similar to Peter George's Red Alert, the 1958 novel on which Dr. Strangelove is based. When Fail-Safe (the book was sold to Hollywood but the hyphen apparently was not) was published in 1962, Novelist George sued Novelists Burdick and Wheeler for plagiarism. They settled out of court for undisclosed considerations. In any case, the issue is now academic; both pictures were produced by the same company (Columbia...
Later Udall writes Bernays, "You are certainly to be congratulated on your energetic efforts to alert your community," but in another letter says he cannot declare the riverbank a national historic site...
...case, he believed that it would be unfair to the agents and their families to take explicit disciplinary measures." To which the Commission commented: "It is conceivable that those men who had little sleep, and who had consumed alcoholic beverages, even in limited quantities, might have been more alert in the Dallas motorcade if they had retired promptly in Fort Worth. However, there is no evidence that these men failed to take any action in Dallas within their power that would have averted the tragedy...