Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headquarters of a Jewish charity. All told, 19 people were injured. The blasts came just a week after a truck bomb set off outside a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed at least 86 people. After the attacks in Britain, governments around the world went on the alert and threw up security cordons at Israeli embassies and offices...
...woman at the camp gave birth four weeks prematurely. Early the next morning the mother seemed alert as a nurse set up a drip to treat her cholera; but she continued to bleed, and died before noon. Her husband arose and left, and the baby, still caked with blood, was left alone on the mat. "Without breast-feeding she is going to die," said one relief worker, swaddling the baby in a cloth wrap and leaving her in a cardboard box in the corner of a tent...
...second terrorist bombing in London and the possible targeting of Israeli offices in the U.S. put authorities on a state of red alert. In the British capital, five people were injured this morning in a blast outside a Jewish fund-raising group's headquarters -- the city's second car-bombing in 12 hours. Fearful that the recent bombings in Britain, Argentina and Panama could lead to a wave of terrorism aimed at halting the Middle East peace process, Israel demanded tighter security worldwide. Nine U.S. cities responded promptly. In New York City, for example, police surrounded the Israeli consulate with...
...stream-lined apple-green kitchens appealed to the June Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries is out to find it, binoculars in hand and his snooping mind alert. It is the year the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made his voyeuristic thriller, "Rear Window...
...kids who are hyperactive, the pattern is unmistakable, says Dr. Bruce Roseman, a pediatric neurologist with several offices in the New York City area, who has ADHD himself. "You say to the mother, 'What kind of personality did the child have as a baby? Was he active, alert? Was he colicky?' She'll say, 'He wouldn't stop -- waaah, waaah, waaah!' You ask, 'When did he start to walk?' One mother said to me, 'Walk? My son didn't walk. He got his pilot's license at one year of age. His feet haven't touched the ground since...