Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Udall declared that he was powerless to do this, he tacity encouraged Bernays. The Secretary said in a letter: "You are certainly to be congratulated on your energetic efforts to alert your community, so that all who will be most affected can take a good look at what is about to happen...
...tell on Castro and his henchmen. "We are face to face with history," roared Minister of Industries Che Guevara last week. "We cannot be afraid. This is a fight to the death." Added Castro's little brother Raul, head of Cuba's armed forces: "We must be alert. We must be implacable." Castro canceled all military leaves and placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned the sea and sky for any suspicious movement, while patrol boats and shore patrols...
...zeal that would make a pawnbroker blush. The most meaningful U.S. marketplace is the auction room at Parke-Bernet Galleries in Manhattan; and when Parke-Bernet announced for last week an end-of-season clearance sale of modern masters that promised to set prices, the art world got alert...
...them long-withheld civil rights is not enough. They must provide public education for Negro children at an earlier age-at three or four. By the time the children are five or six, an overcrowded, oppressive home life has stifled their impulse to learn and made them much less alert than comparable white children. Corporations must set job quotas for Negroes, give them on-the-job training, even put up with impaired efficiency until the Negroes are trained...
...British good will alone," he said. "There must be some reciprocity. We have seen precious little of this up to now, I must say." Assuming that none would be forthcoming, Britain beefed up its forces in Aden with strategic reserves from Kenya, put the Lancashire Fusiliers on 24-hour alert in England. If still more muscle is needed, warned Sir Alec, "troops will be moved from Germany...