Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wobbling Plot. What plot there is in Wheels wobbles around the question of whether the "clean-cut and alert" Trenton can accept the ethics of the auto industry and whether he will open his blue eyes in time to see that he has been neglecting his wife, passionate and unfulfilled Erica. It is usually said of Hailey that he does considerable research and gives his readers a lot of interesting information about, for instance, airports or hotels. This time he has not come up with much. Auto workers shoot H on company time, the reader learns. Never...
...sight; as of last week, only one had reappeared. Air traffic over the mainland came to a near halt, and Communist Chinese air force interceptors did not even rise, as usual, to shadow Nationalist fighter patrols over the Taiwan Strait. Military units were put on some sort of alert, and there were reports of furloughs being canceled, although soldiers on leave appeared as usual in Peking...
...from the canal. Seven men were killed when the Stratocruiser crashed in the Sinai desert, 15 miles from the waterway. Israeli Phantoms avenged them by raking Egyptian positions near the west bank with rockets. The Egyptians fired back, and on both sides of the canal ground troops were on alert...
Over the next two hours, the shortwave Sherlock continued to monitor and tape what he heard. The thieves in the vault were apparently worried that the fumes from their heavy-duty cutting torches would alert security guards, and they wanted to knock off for the night. Said one of the gang: "Look, the place is filled with fumes where we was cutting. And if the security come in and smell the fumes, we are all going to take stoppo and none of us have got nothing. Whereas this way we have all got 300 grand to cut up when...
...guard around the presidential palace was reinforced. Saigon gossips began adding up the forces loyal to Vice President Ky, which are thought to include some marine, airborne and armor battalions, plus six prop-driven Skyraiders at Tan Son Nhut airbase. The U.S. command placed all American installations on alert, mainly to keep G.I.s off the streets of cities where short-lived but ugly anti-American riots had broken out last week...