Word: alerted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That was a lot of money at the time, especially to the not yet ultra-rich Joann Rowling, but it turned out to be the bargain of the century - that one, and probably this one too. Over the next decade or so Scholastic went on to print (spoiler alert!) over 140 million Harry Potter books. (Read about Harry Potter's last adventure here...
...took the University longer to alert the freshman class—which was spread out at proctor meetings, in dark dorms, parents' hotel rooms, and elsewhere in Harvard Square—that they'd have to spend the night elsewhere...
...Manny sold these advanced ideas through a seductive, daunting prose style that left the alert reader exhausted and grateful. Much of it is collected in the you-must-order-it-now collection, Negative Space, first published in 1971 and reissued in expanded form in 1998. It's essential for anyone who has ever been to a movie or read a word of English. You'll learn how films should be seen, and how the language can be twisted, refined, expanded, improved, undercut, remade. (The frustrating news is that Negative Space represents only a small fraction of the Farber canon...
...guarantee put us all on alert," says U.S. starting point guard Jason Kidd, who won his second Olympic gold medal and improved his international record to 56-0. "It helped. We had no problems with him saying that, we all believed it. When a teammate goes all out, we all go out. If your best player is going to say that, you're going to support...
...Gilbert-Pederson does a pretty good impression of a grizzled old pol. A delegate from Minneapolis and full-time Barack Obama field worker, he's on his fifth campaign, having cut his teeth working for Walter Mondale's brief Senate run back in 2002. Although he's on constant alert for surprise swift-boat-style attacks from the right, Gilbert-Pederson reports that Obama's operation is "one of the best that I've ever seen in a presidential race...