Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
Typical of the alert, enlightened, approachable churchmen with whom William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, is filling vacant bishoprics in the Church of England is Dr. John William Charles Wand, recently appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells.* Last week Dr. Wand and his wife were in the U.S. on their way to England from Australia, where the prelate has been Archbishop of Brisbane...
...press observed that he was "the only athlete in the world who can look at 35 Rembrandts in his own home and then take a warm-up jog through 40,000 acres without leaving his own domain. Yet he is the most democratic member of [his] village-keen, alert, gracious and always ready with a quick smile and unlimited courtesy." This time he finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles...
...seizing the customary irrelevant knickknacks. The Rumanian section looked hopeless. Outside stood armed Germans, determined that none should save himself at the Führer's expense. Crouched silently among the Germans were tin Greeks, the Albanians, the anti-Axis Yugoslavs, fingering concealed weapons. Beyond the ring stood alert, main-chance Turks, wondering when the day for taking sides (TIME, July 12) would come...
About a week out, the convoy steamed smoothly along the broad Atlantic seaway. Lookouts were on the alert. The ships were out of range of the landbased PBYs and Liberators which gave them anti-submarine protection on the first stage of their journey. Now they were on their...