Word: alertness
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Some on both sides predicted violent outbursts no matter who won. A bolstered Chicago police force was on special alert election night in sensitive neighborhoods, according to police sources...
...fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues of an almost lost art: the straight reading. Unaffected period costumes, a simple Roman-looking set, and very alert casting give the audience a secure sense of a play with dynamism and direction...
...Mubarak is said to have responded almost hysterically to Gaddafi's most recent feints. At a closed-door meeting two weeks ago, he declared: "If a Third World War will ever start, it will start here-and now." The entire Egyptian air force has been put on general alert, and large army units have been deployed along the Libya-Sudan border. Nonetheless, Gaddafi's meddling seems tireless. Only four weeks ago, the Saudi government executed three officers who were accused of conspiring with Libyan agents to try to overthrow the Saudi royal family. Nobody can tell...
...Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with a small alarm next to her bed connected to the room of an alert royal page...
...between Dixon's heroics came a key assist by fellow guard Bob Ferry. The alert pass to Monroe Trout was just another in a series of great Ferry plays on the night. The sophomore tallied 18 points to lead all scores, popping from the outside or driving through the lane for easy five-footers. Ferry has scored in double figures in 17 of Harvard's 21 outings...