Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...security officials until two planes had departed and left him stranded until the next day. At that point, the officials gave him a 48-hour visa; some hours later, that visa was extended by Sihanouk's announcement that all journalists would be admitted. Pace sat through a riot alert at the threatened U.S. embassy, spent an hour and a half in private conversation with the Prince over glasses of pink champagne, which neither man drank, and finally joined the dinner party, where, he reported, "the food was excellent and the lettuce the best in the world." Then he flew...
...have since served in Italy in World War II, and with the U.N. forces in Korea. The regimental mascot is a goat named Baptiste, named after Jean-Baptiste, patron saint of French Canada, and their marching song is Vive la Canadienne. The Van Doos have been on a U.N. alert for the past three years as a "fire-brigade force ready to go anywhere," have been trained in such niceties as mob control, guerrilla operations and peace-patrol techniques, and carry such special equipment as wooden batons and steel mesh shields as protection against stone-throwing demonstrators...
Already the Cyprus crisis and the resulting anti-American demonstrations in Greece have at least temporarily scared off millions of U.S. investment dollars desperately needed to speed up Greek industrialization. Income from tourism has plummeted and the maintenance of the military on constant alert is a steady drain on the government's coffers. Though Papandreou and Constantine both favor a moderate solution to the Cyprus problem, popular indignation on the question could endanger the government-and the throne-unless some sort of settlement clearly favorable to Greece is achieved. Thus the future of an old man named Papandreou...
...have taken the little course. Unlike the retreat, which emphasizes individual meditation and passive attention to sermons, the Cursillo requires active, cooperative participation by all candidates. Thus each course includes one or two "auxiliaries" -veteran Cursillistas who pretend to be there for the first time. They keep discussions going, alert the rector and priest if someone is not entering into the right spirit of the course...
...plus other parking areas, which all take in $964,000 a year in fees. Yet this costly effort provides only 10,486 campus spaces for 38,800 students and teachers, and a 60-man staff has to herd U.C.L.A. cars in and out like SAC bombers on a red alert...