Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Praising its extensiveness and felicity of expression, Barzun discovers weaknesses in the report of Harvard's "Objectives" committee which "alert opponents of General Education will seize upon" and "which will confuse those eager to follow the call...
...House of Commons, the Tories were full of fight. The "Young Tory" reformers, none too effective in their Party's heyday, would be alert for any chance to prove that rightist reason could match leftist ardor. But Prime Minister Clement Attlee, confronting his first Parliament, would keep a closer eye on the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Some U.S. officials at Potsdam thought that Stalin tired easily, looked far from well. Others at Potsdam said, with equal certainty, that Stalin looked alert, active, somewhat younger than his age. Moscow reports last week had him laughing heartily, talking animatedly, doodling enthusiastically between translations. Visiting U.S. Congressmen said he was in fine fettle. Russians quizzed on his health said only: "Stalin is a Georgian. Georgians live forever...
...Marshall "clearly indicated to Short that he should change his alert plan (there was no proof that he ever did) and only use the Air Force for guard during the last stage when the Air Force as such had been destroyed and a hostile landing effected...
Gerow was pinned because he confused rather than informed Short with his messages. And both Marshall and Gerow were criticized because they did not take steps in the last few days to inform Short that his anti-sabotage alert was inadequate to meet the storm that might break. (War Secretary Stimson characterized the criticism of Marshall as "entirely unjustified...