Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more alert as to who was doing what and what was going on," he said...
...shabby-genteel in Baltimore, Maryland, but he gazes out of a 1945 photograph like one of nature's born aristocrats. The face, at age 41, is lean and boyishly handsome, the hair neatly trimmed; there is a casual elegance about his dress. But the dominant features are the eyes: alert, mischievous, wary, playful, like those of an actor savoring the potential of a new role, a fresh persona. Despite the thousands of words written by and about him, Alger Hiss, who died last week at 92, remains one of the most tantalizing figures of the cold war. His 1949 trial...
Everybody does surveys now before making decisions of any importance at all, even if the answers could easily be predicted by an alert 10-year-old. Witness the recently concluded presidential campaign. In TIME's postelection campaign narrative, it was reported that the White House pollsters took a survey to determine what Bill Clinton should say he was building a bridge to--one option being "Building a Bridge to a Second Term...
...height of the fire, flames leapt from windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building was engulfed in heavy smoke. Steel window frames on the top floor were bent by intense heat. Some people inside waved pieces of cloth through ventilation shafts, trying to alert rescuers. Two government helicopters were used to pluck people to safety...
Then came the Triple Concerto. An alert reader of the program notes might have been put on guard by the admission that the piece "received negative criticism in its premier (1808), and to some extent to the present day." And understandably so, since it has a deadly combination of mediocre themes and an unncessary number of soloists; this means that each theme is heard at least three times in a row, from the cellist, the violinist, and the pianist, before it is allowed to die. The certainty of this repetition quickly becomes tedious, especially in the first and third movements...