Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol increased, the expenditure on this pardonable indulgence in wartime was in clanger of reaching the income-tax level. . . . It was observed that the consumption of alcohol by N. Gubbins, Esq., increased during air raids. . . . It was also noticed that the rate of consumption was highest when the alert was sounding and lowest when the all-clear was heard...
...full lieutenant-one of the youngest in the Army. For years he served as an instructor in military schools, taught military skiing on the Alpine runs of the Andes. In Army circles the word spread that Juan Perón was an unusually intelligent, alert professional soldier...
...informal label belied the alert and determined play which marked the club's campaign against opponents of widely varied abilities. The lone defeat was sustained at the hands of the Melville Raiders, a club well stocked with former All-Americans and professionals...
Audiences were almost never alert to such real crises, but on the other hand were upset by trifles: their most violent reaction (lasting an entire act) was to an actor's inadvertently addressing a commissioned officer as a noncom. Audiences in general, Newman decided, have an "average mental age" of between...
After the first year of training, citizen soldiers would get the chance to become reserve officers, either through R.O.T.C. or at officer candidate schools. Graduates of officers' schools would have to spend another year on active duty, keep alert, from then on, with correspondence courses and short annual periods of soldiering in the field. Most would go on the inactive list at 30, although the Army would hang onto tiptop reserve officers until the regular retirement...