Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Championship Company. When he went over last June to breeze through England's famed Wimbledon tourney, he found that the British spectators were different. Unlike the U.S. crowd, which nearly always pulls for the underdog, they wanted to see the best man win. At Wimbledon, the alert expertness of Big Jake always seemed to be understood by the tennis-wise crowd, expressing itself in cries of "Good shot" almost as soon as the ball met the racket...
Danger & Beauty. When not on the bridge, Captain Illingworth sits at his desk just below it, bobbing up every three or four minutes to scan the sea ahead. He is equally alert to the danger and the beauty of the North Atlantic, and the slightest change of light brings him to his feet. "Look at that, sir. Look at that patch of sunlight to the right of the fog bank ahead. Did you ever see anything like that?" he roars, his sea-blue eyes glowing at the sight. After 44 years at sea he still acts like a man from...
...phone?" said a harassed official at the U.S. Legation in Vienna last week. "It's a direct outside line, but I can't get a single number on it the first time I dial. The second time I invariably get right through. The first dialing serves to alert a monitor. He then sees to it that I get good service while he listens...
...reached "a maximum of vilification and a minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech, and merely interpolated a verbal warning: "And we must ever be on the alert against the threat of rule by Popery...
...week, on his 54th birthday, after a long wartime evacuation, Eros, the winged, aluminum god of love, returned to his Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from alert bobbies. Flower-Girl Polly was ready with 15 fresh roses to garland her hero. An official stopped her. "A bit frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what...