Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mubarak is said to have responded almost hysterically to Gaddafi's most recent feints. At a closed-door meeting two weeks ago, he declared: "If a Third World War will ever start, it will start here-and now." The entire Egyptian air force has been put on general alert, and large army units have been deployed along the Libya-Sudan border. Nonetheless, Gaddafi's meddling seems tireless. Only four weeks ago, the Saudi government executed three officers who were accused of conspiring with Libyan agents to try to overthrow the Saudi royal family. Nobody can tell...
...between Dixon's heroics came a key assist by fellow guard Bob Ferry. The alert pass to Monroe Trout was just another in a series of great Ferry plays on the night. The sophomore tallied 18 points to lead all scores, popping from the outside or driving through the lane for easy five-footers. Ferry has scored in double figures in 17 of Harvard's 21 outings...
...they hear a most unusual reply: "Corruption hot line." It is not a wrong number, nor is the businesslike voice on the receiving end peddling tips on how much the local health inspector will take to overlook the roaches in a restaurant. The phone is manned by an alert agent of the FBI, who listens with poised pencil to any caller's allegation that local officials are crooks...
...midst of great national worry, the quality in the presidency that helps keep a beleaguered nation together is the character of the man we glimpse in the White House. Over these past decades some of our Presidents have had more than others. We have not always been alert to those who have had outstanding characters, and sometimes we have been fooled by those who did not have the depths of character we thought they had. Character has come in different sizes and shapes, and some Presidents seemed to have enlarged it as time went on, while others have appeared...
...regular publication of Seventh Sister, a newspaper focusing on women at Harvard/Radcliffe, would be the first step toward an alliance of women's groups on campus. As a central source of activity on women's activity here, RUS would alert undergraduates to available activity and support relevant to their lives as women students...