Word: alertness
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...denouement emerges in the final paragraph: "Williams, who has been on a lecture tour for three months, said his aim is to alert Americans that communist forces are infiltrating and subverting American society. He said the advances of pornography, the increased acceptance of homosexuals, and gains by anti-school prayer forces are examples of "cultural terrorism...
Police sealed off all exits to the city for hours after the shooting, called a national alert, and stepped up patrols at border crossings. It was the largest manhunt in Sweden's history, but as the week began, no arrests had been made. Police speculated that the murder might have been committed by any number of disaffected groups, from Croatian nationalists to West German terrorist factions...
...announcement came over a department-store loudspeaker that a nearby bank had been robbed. Deciding that it was unsafe to walk around with so much cash, Sabine walked over to a second downtown bank, People's Heritage. There, he began filling out forms to open a checking account. An alert teller, who had heard about the heist two blocks away, took one look at Sabine and, despite his new coat, called the police. Said a bank official, he "was not our usual kind of customer." Just 59 minutes after he walked out of Maine National, Sabine was arrested for bank...
...turtles do not need or get, in this perfect little film, a literary- philosophical interpretation of their lot. The human characters could possibly supply some self-explanations, but they don't bother. William is a perversely perky little man, hesitantly alert. Neaera has a closed ferocity about her, as if she may be contemplating spinsterhood but finds the idea just too commonplace for a woman of truly unfettered mind...
...York, followed by 13 other states and the District of Columbia, banned the sale of all Tylenol capsules, and 15 other states urged their voluntary withdrawal from stores. Johnson & Johnson, as well as the Food and Drug Administration, issued a national alert against using Tylenol in capsule form. Surveys conducted by the company, which spent an estimated $300 million to reclaim Tylenol's market position after the 1982 killings, indicated that so far, Tylenol users were not as alarmed as they had been four years ago. That was heartening news for the pharmaceutical giant, since Tylenol alone accounts for some...