Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State of Alert...
...hesitantly mundane, as if the conversants had only recently recovered the use of thier tongues after an enforced silence, and weren't exactly sure what should be said. Humor is a welcome leavening in such situations, and Bobbie Ann Mason's "Graveyard Day" is particularly adept at keeping readers alert...
...past campaign newsletters, which reported facts and clarified issues, reflected this belief. Since I am not seeking re-election, I have no campaign literature this year, but recent actions of the present School Committee make me so anxious about the fiscal future of our school system that I must alert the citizen/taxpayers of this city. The "last straw" occurred at the most recent School Committee meeting...
...water. It is Bartlett's aide-memoire, the cam era, that sets the strange flavor of these images. She will paint four or five versions of the same view, shifting position a little each time; the effect is not one of Warhol-like repetition, but rather of alert, frustrated scrutiny, as though the scene held the key to some forensic mystery that lies just under the eye but is too obvious...
...book calls on students, faculty and administrators to take an active role in educating themselves about harassment. Administrators and professors must be alert to the problem and, difficult though it may be, women must step forward to report complaints. Dziech and Weiner believe complaints are best handled informally, although they acknowledge that, "ironically, successful informal mediation deceives the campus community into not knowing or acknowledging that there are harassment problems...