Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still in control. But behind the scenes there was obvious concern for maintaining stability. Cabinet ministers and high military officers met to consider emergency measures in case of Franco's death, and Spain's secret police and paramilitary Civil Guard were put on round-the-clock alert...
...Alert, courageous newsmen standing as sentries against the abuse of power?that is the dominant image most journalists have of their Watergate performance. On campuses, any newsman remotely part of the action is assured of a hero's welcome. Applications to journalism schools are at an alltime high, and many of the youngsters say that they want to be investigative reporters. Coverage of Watergate and related scandals has won four Pulitzer Prizes and a number of lesser awards. All the President's Men, the how-we-did-it book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, became...
...jolt the way they used to. In Bruce's mind the fear of arrest and exposure had mingled with excretory fantasies and the irrational guilt of old-fashioned Jewish toilet training with its terrifying threats--"He made kaka? All right, we'll get a policeman!" So you have to alert your "liberated" psyche against this sense of easy enjoyment to make meaningful your own participation in the play...
...kind of'unilateral Soviet move.'" (This version seemed later to have been partly disputed by Schlesinger, who said that the probability of Soviet troops actually being on the move "was considered by some to be low.") At 11:30 p.m. Schlesinger ordered the first stage of the alert...
...country reacted with shock to the alert. The inevitable suspicion was that the alert, or at least its extent, was caused by a political desire to divert attention from Watergate. The Kalbs report that Kissinger later admitted, privately, that the alert had perhaps been on a larger scale than necessary. At any rate, as he and the Kalbs see it, the alert gave the Russians a clear signal of U.S. determination not to allow unilateral intervention in the Middle East and made possible a U.N. resolution for a peacekeeping force excluding the two superpowers. It was an illustration of Kissinger...