Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice and Nikita Khrushchev's safety on his 1959 visit to the U.S. Many fathers of newborn twins have collected from Lloyd's, and 20th Century-Fox recovered $2,000,000 from Lloyd's when Elizabeth Taylor's illness delayed the filming of Cleopatra. Ever alert to a little publicity when the price is right, Lloyd's even covered a Manchester cinema against its patrons' strain, wrench or rupture due to "excessive laughter...
...hatched or at least talked about daily. Diem and his family are aware of most of the talk, and their nerve is good. Suggesting that there will be a coup unless the Buddhist crisis is brought under control, Nhu keeps his elaborate secret police network constantly on the alert. In government "reeducation centers" throughout the country are an estimated 20,000 political internees. According to one report, the new contingency plan against a coup is to draw regiments from the worst Viet Cong areas to the capital, a "deliberately dangerous" plan designed to make the Americans fear that a coup...
...garbage disposal were brand-new and that two U.S.A.F. nurses "with decorations for outstanding service in the delivery room" would soon report to Otis. Jackie really plans to have her baby at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, but the Air Force believes in being on 15-minute alert...
Though the Trippe rate would not take effect until next April at the earliest, he wanted to put the other carriers on early alert that Pan Am will press for cheaper travel-as it long has -when the clubby International Air Transport Association convenes next fall. l.A.T.A.'s European lines forced the U.S. to accept higher rates two months ago (TIME, May 24), but the U.S. may well be in a stronger position next fall. Reason: Congress is likely to strengthen the Civil Aeronautics Board's powers of retaliation against balky foreign lines...
According to the Sun. Bushy white hair aflare, drooping mustache aquiver, cotton strips wound around his arms to absorb the sweat, he is a little deaf but alert as a lion. He is still planning additions to the hospital and is working on Volume III of The Philosophy of Civilization. A few weeks ago, he announced that he would make no more rest visits to Europe, which his disciples take to mean that Schweitzer wants to die at Lambaréné, where his wife was buried six years...