Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Bomarc, long-range anti-aircraft missile, was in the air within two minutes after an alert signal, searched out and destroyed a drone B-17 bomber 100 miles out over the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Canaveral...
...alert Atlantic was one of the first U.S. magazines to devote regular sections to news of education, art, music and science. It plunged eagerly into controversies over Darwin and Al Smith, published William James's eloquent plea for world government ten years before World War I, exposed Stock Exchange malpractices in 1926 that were not banned by law until after the crash. Unlike most "quality" magazines, the Atlantic today aims at giving the reader a well-rounded view of the month's events as well as the standard quota of articles and criticism...
Meanwhile, at a Washington news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said the west "must constantly be alert" against Russia launching some foreign adventure to divert attention from what is going on at home...
...Style Water. Workers and scientists in protective clothing played streams of carbon dioxide into the cooling channels, but the fire in the uranium did not go out. Police were alerted to evacuate the area, as scientists debated whether it would be safe to put out the strange, new-style fire with old-style water. The decision was made to go ahead, and hoses poked into the reactor soon put out the fire. The alert was canceled, and the single casualty, Worker Stan Ritson, who got unpleasantly radioactive, was scrubbed over and over and sent home with all his body hair...
...years Western ears have been alert to whispers that there is in Moscow and Leningrad a cultural underground where a few painters are furtively turning out forbidden abstractions and showing them clandestinely among themselves. Last week the first examples of this art, ten paintings by a necessarily anonymous Russian artist, were put on exhibition in Paris' Right Bank Galerie Daniel Cordier...