Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the impeccably alert Captain Spencer is invited to what seems to be a Luftwaffe officers' mess. In the ensuing friendly shop talk, he reveals that a head cold is the reason his mission commander has been dropped from the projected flight. Colds are serious to flyers only when they don oxygen masks. The only prime German target separated from Naples by oxygen-mask mountain altitudes is Munich. When U.S. bombers head for Munich's Hermann Goring oil works, Messerschmitts are waiting for them...
...Crimson right fielder, Bob Capaccio, played a bang-up game despite a bandaged left hand. Wallace was very fast, but he lacked control in some spots. Alert base running paved the way for several Crimson markers. Kidder might have escaped the disastrous fourth inning with fewer runs scored against him except for a bad-hop grounder that skidded freakishly over the Tufts shortstop's head. The Jumbo dugout jockeys had quite a lot of comment for so few runs. HARVARD ab h po a Falsey, ss 4 1 5 3 Williams, cf 5 0 2 0 Coulson...
...hardly necessary to ask a former Athletic who the greatest manager baseball is. "Crash" left no doubt at his decision: "Connie Mack is a great fellow--just like a father to his ball players. He's a mental and physical phenomenon--just as alert as you or I despite...
After this blood bath Dictator Ubico met little serious opposition, although he often refreshed his people's memory by preventive drizzles of blood. An efficient administrator, he kept tight rein. Plots melted before his pervasive spies, his alert police under shrewd, ruthless Roderico Anzueto. No Guatemalan felt free from secret observation. Today, even Cabinet ministers are under close surveillance...
Meanwhile, Nazi air squadrons made pinprick night attacks. They harassed beachheads occasionally, kept convoy gunners alert to repel assaults for which Berlin claimed good results...