Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numerous now that medical science has learned to prolong the body's life, or at least some signs of life, long after the mind has become irreparably clouded. But Dr. Vanden Bergh says that he, and most doctors, have seen many patients who were not only conscious but alert right up to the end. Even with a patient who is technically comatose, there is no way for an outsider to be certain how much he senses of what is going on around...
...vent this scream--all except the eyes. The drawn muscles of the face, the stretched mouth, the twisted lips and the lines in the forehead leading down past the nose--express a sensitive adolescent's wild and frustrated response to a confusing world. But the eyes are open and alert, as if Beckmann is seeing himself apart from himself, viewing his face as a mask. He captures a vision of himself, not "through a glass darkly, but face to face, even as he is seen." Beckmann makes visible and concrete, his clusive identity, his inner self: "If you wish...
Unlike their predecessors, the Concord Minutemen of 1775, the embattled businessmen standing by the rude Weeks Bridge will not fire a warning shot. They will run to Ellot House and blow a whistle to awake Mrs. Finley, who will alert volunteers by telephone. Mrs. Finley thinks it would be a shame "if the trees were chopped down while we lay in our beds anug and warm...
Obviously, no professional thief in his right mind would try to steal any of those gems. They would take for granted that burglar alarms are stretched like invisible fish nets across the room, that sharp-eyed guards march hither and yon on everlasting alert, and that at the very least the windows are locked...
Prattling Particles. Radios and radars were also alert. Any nuclear explosion sets off a great variety of electromagnetic waves, some of which are in the radio segment of the spectrum. They travel great distances, guided around the curve of the earth by ionized layers in the upper atmosphere, and they are not difficult to detect. The explosion-born pulse of radio waves disappears quickly, but another radio effect lingers on. As the mushroom cloud climbs into the stratosphere, its radioactivity releases a vast number of electrons that ionize a mass of air and turn it into a radio wave reflector...