Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machines. Paul Weiss, retired Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale and one of the nation's foremost teachers, has been denied the Albert Schweitzer Chair at Fordham University because, at 69, he is considered too old. He has now sued, charging discrimination and asserting that he is as alert and vigorous as ever. Says he: "The idea of age has never occurred...
...controversial safety came on the game's last play. Both sides had agreed to play until the noon bell rang, but a jet flew overhead as the bell sounded, and though the managers were able to hear it, they did not alert the CRIMSON. The safety came five minutes later...
...Maximum Alert. Violence was not altogether unexpected. Two days before the congressional vote. General Rene Schneider was shot and gravely wounded by a small band of still unidentified terrorists. As he drove to his office along a narrow one-way street, his black Mercedes was suddenly blocked by four vehicles. While one young man smashed the rear window of the Mercedes with a small sledgehammer, another fired eight times at the general with a .45-cal. automatic pistol, and then escaped...
...worked for 90 minutes to remove three bullets from his chest, neck and forearm. That night he suffered a massive hemorrhage, and the following day remained near death. While police erected roadblocks around Santiago, President Frei placed the 90,000 men of the armed forces and carabineros on maximum alert...
Hussein is aware of the lingering bitterness, and he is also alert to a quandary involving Israel. The King has frequently indicated that he would like to make peace with the Israelis. But the fedayeen have convinced his people that they must continue the war against Israel. This puts Hussein in a position that monarchs have rarely faced; the more he presses to end hostilities, the more hostile his own subjects become...