Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some have decorated their gas masks with feathers or flowers. Daphna Glazer, a four-year-old from Jerusalem, asked her father to make a mask for her teddy bear. Elihai Radzinski, 15, has volunteered to stay up most of the night listening to the radio so he can quickly alert his family of government warnings. Others take a stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large...
...many viewers, the week's most memorable moment came not when General Powell unveiled his diagrams of damaged Iraqi targets but when CNN's Charles Jaco scrambled for his gas mask on the air in Saudi Arabia, in the erroneous belief that he had whiffed poison gas during an alert in Dhahran...
During the storm, Brown said, he and his companion began to exhibit signs of hypothermia. Though each reportedly tried to sustain conversation in order to keep the other awake and alert, Brown said he did become incoherent for a time...
Georgians remain suspicious of the Kremlin's intentions. They are worried that the gulf war gives the central government an excuse, under the guise of a military "alert," to reinforce troops in the republic, which shares a border with Turkey. If tanks should roll, they have vowed to take to the streets to defend their right to autonomy -- whatever the risks...
Even though the Iraqi military had supposedly been on maximum alert for several days and the U.S.-led alliance had made no secret of its intent to open any war with a massive and continuing aerial campaign, the Iraqis nonetheless appear to have been taken by surprise, or at least to have been unprepared for the fury of the assault. How could that be possible...