Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife were delighted. Together they had six daughters and one son from their previous marriages. Young Scott, who is bright and alert, quickly took his place as the family's younger brother. Delight turned to dismay when the Damaschkes tried to make certain that Scott would always be legally theirs. At least five court decisions in Michigan have established that a man who gets a divorce has a right to be treated as the father of any child born within nine months of the decree...
...Months in the planning, "C-day" broke bright and early across South Viet Nam. U.S. command posts received coded radio instructions while most troops were still asleep, promptly ordered all personnel to muster for an alert. Base commanders dismissed Vietnamese civilian employees for the day and sealed off installations to ail outsiders. "We needed a period of limited combat activity," said Colonel Melvin E. Richmond, the man who oversaw the mission. "Operational requirements dictated the timing...
Though the U.S. would not automatically respond to an attack on Yugoslavia, as it would to one on a NATO ally, the Johnson Administration nevertheless is eager to alert the Soviets to the U.S. concern. At Czechoslovakia's request, the U.S. had refrained from any public warnings to the Soviets during the tense preinvasion period in order not to provide the Soviets with another pretense for marching into Prague. Silence having proved futile, the Administration is now determined to impress on the Soviets, given their new mood of unpredictability, that the U.S. will stand by its allies in Europe...
...REPEAT, DO NOT LOOSEN YOUR TIE. DEVIATION CAN SPRING UP ANYWHERE. BE ON THE ALERT. REMEMBER, ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NON-CONFORMITY! No Sir, I didn't mean conservative like that, like mod-men and ad-men: I mean political...
...compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there had been neither coup nor arrests. The alert was a routine precaution against Communist moves, he said. His report had some holes: there was no evidence of unusual Communist activity around Saigon, and about 20 people were indeed called in for interrogation...