Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President, is a subscriber. Copies are regularly ordered by Photographer Ansel Adams and Comedian Steve Allen. A minister in Maine claims he is addicted to them, and a Kentucky undertaker listens to them in his hearse. Pilots at Mather Air Force Base at Sacramento tune in while on alert status. Today, thousands of American commuters, determined to put the down time of driving to better use, are discovering the pleasures of loud literature: books transcribed on cassette tapes. A widening range of fiction, poetry, history, biography, language courses and self-help texts is now available for the expressway bibliophile...
...snow shoveled from his sidewalk. "If I don't do it, they'll think I'm hiding, and so they will start looking for me." Intellectuals have been particularly hard hit, arrested by the thousands. Some 40 Warsaw scientists narrowly escaped the roundup when one of them managed to alert a network of taxi drivers known to be Solidarity members. The cabbies picked up the scientists at their homes, according to a prearranged plan, and drove them to hiding places. On the streets, friends talked to one another while looking over their shoulders for soldiers. In their homes, people once...
...authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
Ehrlichman describes Kissinger and his wife Nancy as "the tenders of a flame: the historical reputation of Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger, the Nobel laureate. They stand four-hour shifts, alert to attack, shielding the flame with their bodies and souls." Actually, Ehrlichman contends, Nixon became so tired of Kissinger's frequent threats to resign and his National Security Adviser's continual denunciations of Secretary of State William Rogers that he considered firing Kissinger...
...coming 56 years after the Scopes "monkey trial," was testimony of that. But this time around, claim Fundamentalists, opponents of the new law are the ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went on red alert. Though the act explicitly says it is nonreligious, its origins are indisputably Fundamentalist. Such "neutral" bills, requiring that creation science be taught side by side with evolution, have been promoted for years by California's Institute for Creation Research, one of many such groups lobbying against Darwinism...