Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After news of the enemy attacks reached Washington, Johnson kept constant alert, pouncing on more than 25 reports that were rushed to him through the evening and night. At 5 a.m., he was up for a briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
...16th hole, for example, an alert cameraman caught Jack Nicklaus opening his club face on an approach shot. That, explained Commentator Byron Nelson, was for backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera...
...maintain their vital role in the evolvement and improvement of life in the U.S. and abroad, foundations must be constantly alert to the complexities of the world and of their own responsibilities to all society. Their very charters, as the New World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution...
Double Chill. While South Africa was proudly rejoicing, the U.S. transplant team was just beginning. In wintry Brooklyn, Dr. Kantrowitz had put his team on full alert at about the same time as Dr. Barnard was alerting his. His 19-day-old patient, the intended heart-transplant recipient, had been born blue. The child was a victim of severe tricuspid atresia-constriction, to the point of almost total closure, of the three-leafed valve that normally regulates the flow of blood from the right auricle to the right ventricle on its way to the lungs for oxygenation. There...
Thus emboldened, Premier Süleyman Demirel played along with the rising Turkish indignation over Cyprus. In an all-night session of Parliament, he demanded-and got-permission to send troops abroad, which was the next thing to an outright declaration of war. He ordered a full-scale alert and fired off a sharp note to Athens that demanded, among other things, the immediate recall of General Grivas to the mainland and the withdrawal of the illegally infiltrated Greek regulars from the island. He also insisted on guarantees for the free movement of Turkish Cypriots so that they could concentrate...