Word: alerted
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...dullest sense of the term. In fact, the entire Woodward-Bernstein relationship is built up not in the script (where Redford ordered it played down in favor of showing their procedures) but through fleeting exchanges of glances and gestures caught, as it were, out of the corner of an alert camera's eye. Even so, the failure to explore their relationship with more fully dramatized incidents, good sharp verbal exchanges, is a major flaw, giving the picture a certain coldness at its center...
Beirut radio periodically rebroadcast the general's announcement, which was dubbed Communiqué No. 1. The message was ignored by President Franjieh, who remained safe inside his presidential palace at Baabda, on a hill overlooking the capital. The 150-man presidential guard, reinforced with armor units, was on alert and patrolled the grounds. "I am staying on to defend legality and legitimacy," Franjieh announced. "There are three conditions for vacating the presidency: resignation, death or dismissal by Parliament. None of these exist...
...morning of Friday March 12--eight hours before Freshman House Selection Applications were due to be filed--the Crimson released the results of a House popularity poll taken by its staff members. The article's headline "Freshmen Choose Lowell First Again, Mather Last" was the first indication to the alert reader of the misinformation of the misinformation he was about to receive. Not only was the wording "Freshmen Choose" completely fallacious (applications had not yet been filed and no tabulations taken--thus Freshmen hadn't chosen anything yet), but it also at the very least assumes that the Crimson...
During his four days in Peking, Nixon met with Acting Premier Hua four times for a total of ten hours. He had an hour and 40 minute audience with Chairman Mao, finding him "alert, in good humor, and gracious...
...doctored patches were detected by an alert technician and before lunchtime that day reported to Good. A frantic private investigation of the researcher and his work began. Rumors of the scandal soon reached reporters, and within days, both the scientific and lay press were filled with stories of Summerlin's downfall...