Word: alerted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) called off its worldwide alert and informed emergency teams standing by across the country to disband...
...anniversary was marked in a peculiar but strangely appropriate way. The 35,000 Soviet soldiers stationed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, were put on the highest alert. Armored cars, their sirens wailing, raced through the streets as truck convoys dropped Soviet soldiers off at the main intersections. Roadblocks were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they...
Learning that the Soviet Union has hundreds of missiles stationed in Georgia, the President puts all United States troops on a sudden military alert and orders Atlanta evacuated. Embarrassed aides explains to the Chief Executive that the missiles are in the Soviet South, but not before Reagan asks Congress for a $3 billion emergency "revenue enhancement measure" for shovels and canned goods...
Last week the Montana Supreme Court upheld a lower court's finding of damages for the Johnsons: $200,000 plus attorney's fees estimated at $2,100. Serving notice that it would not stand for similar suits, the court said it hoped to "alert those inclined to follow the example of Daniel Murray-they may well be traveling a rocky road...
...Alabama, where Bear Bryant is next to godliness, for once it was left to a football coach to raise an outcry against himself. "I'm going to alert the president of the university and anybody who wants to know," Bryant said a month and a half ago, after Alabama's second loss of the season in nine games, "that we need to make some changes, and we need to start...