Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full-scale insurrection. "No one," he vowed, "is going to take over the streets." The entire police force, nearly 12,000 men, was ordered onto twelve-hour shifts; 5,650 Illinois National Guardsmen were called up for possible reinforcement, and 5,000 more Guardsmen have been put on alert; 7,000 Army troops were preparing to move in. Logistical units were already in place...
...starry evening in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague, vast Wenceslas Square was alive with couples strolling arm in arm, tourists and Czechoslovaks bustling homeward. Then, just before midnight, telephones began to jangle as friends and relatives living in border towns frantically put in calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm...
...BONES (Vortex). There is a brilliant clarity, like tumbling diamonds, to the tones Pianist Corea polishes off here. His touch is firm and percussive, his ear tuned toward a definite, stirring pulse. In Litha he strings together quick, imaginative melodic fragments that are the mark of the alert modernist. When backing the other soloists (Joe Farrell, tenor; Woody Shaw Jr., trumpet), he spreads sprays of dazzling notes that support and enhance the horns' flights. In Tones for Joan's Bones, he displays a more reflective gleam by smoothly rolling the melody over Steve Swallow's loping bass...
...transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically. Two guerrillas were killed and two were captured. Following the Udorn attack, all other bases in Thailand were put on full alert, and U.S. base security guards, previously armed only with pistols, were issued M-16 rifles...
...quarters. "This must not happen!" the signs warned. "It is a desecration. Come by the thousands to the Holy Wall." Task forces of black-frocked, black-hatted rabbis and students took turns guarding the city's Wailing Wall, while more than 1,000 Jerusalem policemen stood on the alert to prevent violence...