Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...table. The two leaders did not shake hands, but Andropov said, "It was my deepest wish to see you yesterday. Unfortunately, it was not possible. I was sick." An eyewitness said the Soviet leader's face looked healthy and that his eyes, behind tinted glasses, were clear and alert. Andropov's left hand appeared numb and stiff, however, and his right hand shook visibly when he made an apologetic gesture. Kohl, who carried two 19th century framed prints of Moscow and St. Petersburg as gifts to the Soviet leader, replied: "In politics there are always obstacles. I fully...
...moments of sweaty panic. In one such attack White flips Rizzo to the ground where his black satin coattails fall over his face. His hands the only part of him left unconcealed poke out in coxcomb shape and proceed to dance as strikingly as if his whole body were alert...
Wait a minute. This time De Vries has gone too far. Hordes of historians, squads of sociologists have despaired of a single answer. On the other hand, perhaps their field research did not alert them to a long-ago incident: the time is the early 1960s, the setting a small, deservedly obscure village in North Dakota. Anthony Thrasher, 15, lives here and calls the place Ulalume. This allusion to the verse of Edgar Allan Poe helps explain why the boy is still languishing in the eighth grade. He suffers from premature sophistication...
More important, the proposed law does not require that businesses stop using toxic materials, simply that it alert employees to their presence in the workplace...
...government in Damascus, a Syrian jet fired an air-to-air missile at an Israeli reconnaissance plane over the Bekaa Valley, but the Israeli pilot successfully eluded it. Then, when the Syrians announced that they would stage large-scale maneuvers in the Bekaa, Israel placed its armed forces on alert and began a partial mobilization of reserves...