Word: alertness
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After a straight drop back, the pocket soon evaporated and Allard had to run for his life. Poised and alert, he found a whole to the left side and slithered for seven yards...
Bott continued his alert play and pinpoint kicking in the second half. After half-scrum Keith Oberg created a break to the narrow side of the field, Bott punted the ball high in the air, raced under it and caught it and continued down the sideline over the endline...
...prevailing joke in Baghdad is that the city must be the only one in the world where the sirens do not start to wail until after the air raid is over. Strictly speaking, that may not be true, but since there is no difference between the alert and the all clear, there is room for confusion. Iranian Phantoms have put on a dazzling display of technical skill, swooping in over Baghdad at treetop level to avoid radar detection, dropping their bombs and hightailing it back to Iran before the Iraqis realize what has happened...
...Sagan these overtures to anyone out there were equally important as signals to earth. They are part of what he calls cosmic consciousness-raising, his attempt to alert earthlings to the excitement and wonder of the universe. It was just such consciousness-raising that first stirred thoughts in Sagan's mind of doing a television program on space exploration...
Fortunately, Americans have a few weeks before they have to decide whether to grab for the monetarist pot of gold. The failures of the Thatcher government in its first year should alert us to the dangerous consequences that can result from the application of "economics-made-simple" to complex national problems. Perhaps then we should pay more heed to the words of the 4000 unemployed who picketed the Brighton conference than to Thatcher's cutesy, Reagan-like pun, "The lady's not for turning." Once you hold your breath and take in your belt for the ride down the monetarist...