Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where from? The alert defenders of southern England quickly found out. The Germans were mounting the robots pickaback on old Heinkels and other obsolete bombers, whose pilots took off from bases in north Holland and Germany, launched the robots at sea, at night. British night fighters, guided from radar stations on the ground, went to work against both bombers and robots, and not many of the missiles got through. It was a feeble echo of last summer's terror; but last week the attacks increased and the flow of evacuees back to London slowed down...
...lesson, taught by desperate Germans from the North Sea to the Alps. Through forests, hills and French hamlets in the Belfort area the Seventh gained a few hundred yards a day in hard, wary fighting against Germans who infiltrated and ambushed, kept the attackers on constant, red-eyed alert...
...completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half of the window is made partially dim, the right half must be wholly blacked-out during an alert, unless the whole window is entirely blacked-put before and after the alert when the half-dimming of the unblacked-out half of the lighted window was, during an alert, left partially dimmed out before the alert, or after it. This does not apply to windows or half-windows left...
Caparisoned in a neat, double-breasted suit and alert amiability, Sidney Hillman acted as if he were just sitting down with the investigators to talk things over. It was more in sorrow than in anger that he reminded the Congressmen that his P.A.C. had already been officially investigated three times (twice by the FBI, once by a Senate campaign expenditures committee). He deeply resented the Communist label: "You're trying to prejudice the public against us. You're hitting below the belt!" But he welcomed this opportunity to help scotch the "fantastic stories" about P.A.C.'s huge...
...seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...