Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense and the presidential palace. Rockets landed perilously close to the headquarters of the U.S. Marine contingent that forms part of the four-nation peace-keeping force. Six U.S. Navy ships pulled out to sea as a precaution, and the Marines went on "Condition 1," the highest state of alert, which requires them to remain under cover...
...baby's eyes jerkily follow a moving ball. "If you give him a human face to look at instead, his eyes will widen and he'll get more intense and he'll follow you," says Brazelton, "and as he follows, his face gets more and more alert and more and more involved, and you can feel yourself getting more and more involved back. This kind of visual involvement is more than just looking. You've got another component from the baby, which says to the person doing this, 'You're terribly important...
...subjects that interest Begin, according to a Cabinet minister, he is lucid and alert, but on topics that do not engage him he can be "apathetic." Begin has occasionally had such spells before, however, and he has always managed to snap out of them. Says a Western ambassador, pointing to his head: "It hasn't changed him up here. He's still got it up there...
Actually, the heat may now shift from Baker to Casey. TIME has learned that, as rumored, Casey did indeed set up a political intelligence-gathering apparatus for the Reagan campaign. But it was not simply a casual use of retired military officers asked to stay alert for any U.S. aircraft moves that might signal the Reagan camp that Carter was about to gain the freedom of the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran-the "October surprise" that Reagan's political aides feared. Instead, cooperative former agents of both the FBI and the CIA were used to gather political information from...
...domestic and foreign bureau system to its present bases in Atlanta, New York City, Washington, Jerusalem, Peking, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro and El Salvador, as well as adding a correspondent on Latin America based in Washington. The Herald's coverage of Central America is generally lauded as alert and thorough. The paper was among the first to launch a weekly business and financial supplement as well as a Sunday magazine, Tropic...