Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention and quite a few results. For the first time in many years, students are marching and fighting and sitting-in not only in developing or unstable countries but also in the rich industrial democracies. In the U.S., the movement has spread from the traditionally active, alert and demonstrative student bodies of the elite schools to many usually quiescent campuses...
Allied intelligence doubted that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
There also is little doubt that there's been a qauntum jump in the volume of this work in the last three or four years--partly because of the draft, partly too because students are a bit more alert to possibilities like VISTA or the Peace Corps. The present vogue is to apply to at least ten medical schools and House Masters find their desks piled high with requests for recommendations from alumni two or three years out of college...
...this triumph, the demonstrators can add the wider victory of invigorating conventional channels of reform. Events like those of last week only slightly threaten the fabric of society--they serve chiefly to alert University administrators to the danger of a self-interested community policy or of a cool disregard of intense student feeling on the way the University...
...group runs a 50% higher suicidal risk than nonstudents in a similar age group, and he scolded the American College of Physicians at its meeting in Boston for not doing more to prevent such deaths. Individuals contemplating suicide normally signal their intention, he said, and doctors must be alert to the message. The most common clues...