Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prayers, dressed in clerical garb and brandishing a 16-in. bayonet. Just as Pope John Paul II mounted the steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly in concern, the Pontiff continued moving up the stairs to circle...
...Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert for an outsider who does not appear to belong. Says Esther Hart, 71, one of 30 women volunteers on the force: "A younger person sticks out like a sore thumb here...
...British commando units were already ashore in the archipelago, gathering intelligence and possibly preparing for a full-scale British invasion. The Argentine occupying force on the islands, according to Argentina's military governor of the Falklands, General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, was in a state of "total alert," expecting an assault that could come, in Menéndez's words, "at any minute." The innocent bystanders of the Falklands dispute, the 1,800 English-speaking residents of the islands, had mostly evacuated to the countryside or taken the opportunity to leave the islands...
Reporters often rely on publicists to alert them to stories, but customarily dismiss the public relations trade as "flackery." They especially bridle at the notion that p.r. agencies offer clients "influence" or "access" to news organizations; journalists consider themselves open to anyone with a story or a complaint...
...Miller suggests violence; he does not exploit it. He throws the viewer off-balance by mixing the ricochet rhythms of his chase scenes with tableaux of Walpurgisnacht grandeur: Wez's rain dance, a fiery crucifixion, a vision of Max flying supine over the outback. Miller keeps the eye alert, the mind agitated, the Saturday-matinee spirit alive...