Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountains: one called for sticking the missiles inside mountains for protection, and another would have placed each missile at a peak's southern foot, thus providing a natural barrier wall, since the Pentagon expects the Soviet CBMs to come gliding in over the North Pole. The Continuous Air Alert Carrier sounds space age; in fact it entailed floating a flock of coastal blimps, each holding a small MX snug to its underbelly...
...fiction filled a gap between the elegant puzzles of the Conan Doyle school and the dumb gore and violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...
...indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals of short-fused patience. Any competent psychiatrist remains alert to the tics and quirky expressions by which a patient's hidden emotions make themselves known. People even signal by the odors they give off, as Janet Hopson documents in superfluous detail in Scent Signals: The Silent Language of Sex. Actually, it is impossible for an individual to avoid...
...gathered by a jointly owned collective, the Associated Press, and its rival United Press International. At a relentless high-speed rate of 1,200 words a minute, 24 hours a day, the wire services supply the printed press, give radio disc jockeys their "rip and read" news, and alert television producers where to dispatch their camera crews...
Superficially, coke is a supremely beguiling and relatively risk-free drug-at least so its devotees innocently claim. A snort in each nostril and you're up and away for 30 minutes or so. Alert, witty and with it. No hangover. No physical addiction. No lung cancer. No holes in the arms or burned-out cells in the brain. Instead, drive, sparkle, energy. If it were not classified (incorrectly) by the Federal Government as a narcotic, and if it were legally distributed throughout the U.S. (as it was until 1906), cocaine might be the biggest advertiser on television...