Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball survives [April 30]. Is it because baseball does not require overt violence or repeated scoring to keep the true fan alert? Is it because hitting a baseball - a 100-m.p.h. fastball with a "hop," a curve that drops 2 ft., or a knuckleball that defies description- is the single most difficult feat required in all sports...
...Patrick Gray III when he admitted he burned the files. Justice Department investigators whispered their dismay over the cover-up at higher levels. If Watergate yields dividends, it could be that next time a civil servant hears the line "I have a mandate from the President ..." he will alert every one of his better instincts and ask every question he can think of before he acts...
Then the money-lack of which had put the orchestra on a disaster alert prior to Solti's arrival-began to come in Annual donations by individuals rose dramatically from $425,919 in 1968 to $1,607,846 last year, corporate contributions from $60,000 in 1966 to $500,000. As a result, the orchestra's endowment fund is now comfortably at a level of $7 million, and last year's deficit was a mere $74,000, lowest since the pre-crisis year of 1963 Last week, the city's music lovers were crammed excitedly into...
...sentence is a combination of things. It is a warning, a safety measure, a punishment, a specific for aberrant behavior, and often a rescue effort. An effective sentence must come from an alert and educated conscience. Sentencing is not a process susceptible to committee action or digital computation, as you seem to suggest...
When Olitski fails, it is by slipping off into one of the surrounding extremes. Pink Alert, the painting that stands at the entrance to the exhibit, demonstrates the original ideas executed at their best, with the edging strokes well defined, scaled and composed, and the gradation of the color field maintaining a lush, breathing "all-over-ness." But when the borders are reduced to chalk lines in the outer inch of the painting, they tend to slide down into the narrow recess between canvas and metal frame, and let the color field dissipate back into a flat canvas flatly painted...