Word: alertness
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This mail, however, was not intended for prompt delivery to any bank. An alert police officer in the suburb of Carrollton spotted one such sign at a local bank, and after a search, another was found. Officers patiently staked out one of the sites. There they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal $10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would charge him with theft of the mailboxes...
When Thurman called Tuesday morning to say fighting had broken out, Powell promptly asked, "Where's Noriega?" That seemingly obvious question produced a host of answers that further muddied events. The roadblocks were ordered and the 12,000 troops attached to the U.S. Southern Command were put on Delta alert, a battle-ready status that calls for American forces to secure U.S. facilities. At about 11:45 p.m. two rebel lieutenants appeared at the gate of Fort Clayton, the main U.S. Army base in the canal zone, and were ushered into an office to meet with Southcom's deputy commander...
...from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives, "and I am little inclined to subject myself to Velazquez's phlegm, nor thus to find further reason to witness...
...irresistibly winning. Eventually it becomes the wedge that pries Emmett out of his shell and forces the girl's grandmother Mamaw (Peggy Rea) to face the feelings that she too has denied since her son's death. These are superb performances as well: Willis has never employed his alert reserve to better effect; Rea perfectly catches both the refrigerator-tidying comedy and the unspoken yearnings of an American Everymom...
...Snow] is a finisher," Getman said. "He's a real alert player, and that's why he's the best player in the country...