Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...myself to be used." Added Ehrlichman in his taped remarks: "I abdicated my moral judgments and turned them over to someone else." He spoke of "an exaggerated sense of my obligation to do as I was bidden," and warned present and future White House aides to be on the alert for "red flags" of moral dilemmas that may arise while serving a President. Finally, Ehrlichman confessed: "I wasn't wise and I'm paying the price for that lack of wisdom. If I had any advice for my kids, it would be never, ever to surrender your moral...
...largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going to the bathroom (for years he suffered...
After receiving word of the abduction Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dropped all other work to take personal command of a special "crisis staff' composed of high officials, security police and crime experts. A nationwide alert was ordered, and Schmidt made a televised appeal for all Germans to cooperate in the search...
Cerf was a supreme gossip, and he had the gossip's alert eye for tattletale details. D.H. Lawrence's wife Frieda was a sloppy housekeeper, he noted, and years later he remembered a dirty milk bottle lying on its side in the middle of the Lawrence parlor. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were so grubbily dumpy that, on a visit they paid to Random House, an elevator boy automatically deposited them on a floor below, thinking they were going to an employment agency for domestic servants...
Despite that easy office camaraderie, many of Sulzberger's executives stay on a wary alert. "There is no way of knowing what he is thinking," says Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson, Sulzberger's closest friend at the firm. Others describe the publisher's management style as resembling an artichoke: multilayered, and far different at heart from what it is on the surface. "This place is never free of tension. We play rough games with each other," says one 14th-floor strategist...