Word: alertness
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...British commando units were already ashore in the archipelago, gathering intelligence and possibly preparing for a full-scale British invasion. The Argentine occupying force on the islands, according to Argentina's military governor of the Falklands, General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, was in a state of "total alert," expecting an assault that could come, in Menéndez's words, "at any minute." The innocent bystanders of the Falklands dispute, the 1,800 English-speaking residents of the islands, had mostly evacuated to the countryside or taken the opportunity to leave the islands...
Reporters often rely on publicists to alert them to stories, but customarily dismiss the public relations trade as "flackery." They especially bridle at the notion that p.r. agencies offer clients "influence" or "access" to news organizations; journalists consider themselves open to anyone with a story or a complaint...
...Miller suggests violence; he does not exploit it. He throws the viewer off-balance by mixing the ricochet rhythms of his chase scenes with tableaux of Walpurgisnacht grandeur: Wez's rain dance, a fiery crucifixion, a vision of Max flying supine over the outback. Miller keeps the eye alert, the mind agitated, the Saturday-matinee spirit alive...
...business suit festooned with medals, Brezhnev looked slimmer than when he was last seen in public, on a visit to Tashkent in Central Asia. He appeared animated, chatting with Chernenko, who smiled and nodded back. As observers searched for signs of recent illness, Brezhnev displayed exemplary endurance. He remained alert throughout Andropov's 55-minute speech, in which the KGB chief reiterated Brezhnev's invitation to President Reagan to meet in Europe next October. Following the speech, the Soviet leader even had the stamina to attend a two-hour concert of Russian songs and dances. Though the true...
...drop on the U.S. with nuclear weapons only if they were convinced that the U.S. was about to reach for its own holster: "If they really concluded that the U.S. had decided to attack them, they would preempt. This would be in a situation of crisis and high alert...