Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After treating a summer school student for measles earlier this week. University Health Services (UHS) has issued a measles alert and is urging all students who are not immunized against the disease to receive a vaccination...
...alert was instituted Monday, after a student was diagnosed with Rubeola. Symptoms of measles--not to be confused with German Measles, or Rubella--include fever, a runny nose and irriated eyes, followed by a rash on the face and body...
Following months of heightened violence and unrest, South Africa's white minority government declared a national alert nine days ago. The state of emergency gave authorities broad police powers, which they have used to jail almost 1000 Blacks and opposition leaders...
...America, really, that got the prize: the enormous energy unleashed by the immigrant dislocations. Being utterly at risk, moving into a new and dangerous land, makes the immigrant alert and quick to learn. It livens reflexes, pumps adrenaline. The immigrant, uprooted, cannot take traditional sustenance from the permanence of home, of place, from an arrangement that existed before he existed and would persist after he died. Everyone is an immigrant in time, voyaging into the future. The immigrant who travels in both time and geographical space achieves a neat existential alertness. The dimensions of time and space collaborate. America...
During his 14-day stay, said Rolf, he found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the doctor seemed to regret nothing. "There are no judges," Rolf recalled his father saying of his pursuers, "only avengers...