Word: vigilantism
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Under Assad, Syrians of late no longer worry about sudden, late-night visits by secret police. But the government is vigilant about dissent, and the occasional crackdowns can be both swift and harsh. Last April, for example, 200 people were rounded up and imprisoned on the eve of the Baath...
In the view of the ever-vigilant CIA, even Richard Nixon may not have been above suspicion. When he was campaigning for the presidency in 1968, the agency secretly opened a letter that he received from Ray Price, a speechwriter traveling in Moscow; the contents dealt only with Nixon'...
The Chinese have good reason to be vigilant. Many of their people live in vulnerable adobe-type, tile-roofed homes that collapse easily during tremors. And the country shudders through a great number of earthquakes, apparently because of the northward push of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. Says...
"We have to talk this thing through with the whole House; we need the whole House's support," Vogt said. "We have to help each other and be more vigilant."
"And the bikinis are rampant out here today..." The voice of color man Hoyt boomed from the transistor radios aboard the Vigilant as the people began moving to the port rail to watch the combatants circle the starting line awaiting the gun, which would signal ten minutes to the start...