Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructed to walk along a specified route in the company of a male student. They were to cling close to one another as if they were lovers, but to proceed cautiously, to be on the alert for spies and agents, and to watch for the agreed signals. The scheme worked, and she was delivered over to men directly representing the Party. Her case was prepared, and by February she became a member...
What purpose would going public serve? The spate of stories provided an alert to New York precinct commanders to keep an eye on where Galante lives (an old, unprepossessing apartment house in Greenwich Village); where he eats (facing the door at a small restaurant near the Fulton Fish Market); where he "works" (a dry-cleaning business he supposedly owns in Little Italy); where he plays (his mistress's flat in Manhattan's Murray Hill section). Already this close surveillance has forced Galante to make one change: his 21-year-old daughter Nina used to cart him everywhere...
Instead of flying home to Georgia last weekend aboard the usual Air Force One, Jimmy Carter and his family went via one of the world's most sophisticated aircraft: one of the three "Doomsday" jets that are constantly on alert at heavily guarded Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Were a nuclear war to break out, Carter would be whisked aboard one of the jets - or sped via helicopter to any of several underground, nuclear-insulated command centers...
...group believes it is important to alert students to the ongoing boycott of non-UFW lettuce, grapes and Gallo products because the UFW "efforts in Boston and at Harvard provide the organization and the money that keeps the movement going," Hershenbaum said...
...alert people watchers might even have caught sight of Ted Sorensen-lean, cerebral, ascetic-moving mysteriously through the Potomac power basin toward his new headquarters at the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Kennedy intellectual left Washington in 1964-lean, cerebral, ascetic...