Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations, the U.S. and Western Europe are more and more outvoted on key issues by blocs of small Third World countries. The President reviewed a lesson that he had learned during a quarter-century in Congress: "We who believe in and live by majority rule must always be alert to the danger of 'tyranny of the majority...
...years as President. That he is walking the Red Beach in solitude now does not mean that he is a broken man." Those who visit Nixon to discuss future projects such as his memoirs or the Nixon Foundation have found him "direct of mind" and "alert," but others describe him as "deeply depressed" and "very tired" and occasionally distracted...
Among his few contacts with others were half a dozen or so phone conversations, including one with California Governor Ronald Reagan in which Nixon denounced the choice of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President. The former President's few visitors found him brisk and alert on some days, depressed and digressive on others. Repeatedly he asked his callers two questions: 1) Was he right in resigning? and 2) Would he face prosecution for acts he had committed as President...
...minutes. "The President asked the Vice President to come over this morning for a private meeting," Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren announced to newsmen shortly before the two sat down together. "And that is all the information I have at this moment." It was information enough, however, to alert reporters that resignation, expected since Monday's devastating admission of obstructing justice, was imminent...
Snarled Traffic. Rumblings of the Cyprus crisis echoed all around the Mediterranean. Syria placed its forces on maximum alert, and President Hafez Assad canceled a state visit to Yugoslavia. The Egyptian government ordered its navy to stay at home...