Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game of the campaign so far is Kirkland's 48-45 win over Winthrop. The Puritans trailed by two and had the ball with only 15 seconds left, but lost the ball and the game to an alert Deacon defense just before time...
...Puritans led 129-128 with two minutes remaining in the game, but lost the ball twice to an alert Concord defense in the warning seconds...
Harvard gave the Tiger a double-bar-related blast in the first few minutes of play. As the Crimson's alert defense capitalized on constant Princeton miscues, Scully and Sedlacek drove in for layups; McClung scored on a jumper from the side and two stuff shots With four minutes gone, Harvard led 10 to 3 and hadn't missed a shot...
...Then an alert officer read about it in Stars and Stripes, which reported with innocent pride that Jayhawk "can claim some of the most distant readers among unit publications. It's a long way to Hong Kong, but Combined Allied Forces Headquarters there has renewed its subscription for 1964." A quick check revealed that there was no such thing as CAFIC. Indeed, it turned out that Hong Kong's P.O. Box 14940 was simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly...
...years ago Kubrick, 35, got the rights to Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...