Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confidential alert came in at 8:59 o'clock, followed by the banshee wall of the blue siren at 9:10. Harvard blacked out immediately, the military dorms leading the way, the civilian ARP men in the College Houses following, and the older men of the graduate schools completing the darkness...
Quick Booty. Ordnance maintenance companies had grabbed the choice pickings before the fighting was over-the trucks (their own and the enemy's), any new enemy weapons, for which Intelligence is always on the alert. Enemy vehicles were patched up, sometimes under fire, put to immediate use. Badly smashed cars and half-trucks were restored to useful life by "cannibalizing"-stealing a motor from one corpse, wheels from another, to make a single going machine from several wrecks...
Outside the wire, the guards watch and wait, bound to the camp almost as tightly as the prisoners. Guards are older men, specially selected and trained. A good many have M.P. schooling. They are changed frequently to keep them alert in their boring work. The guards, too, will be glad when it is all over...
...Assam fighter base has a pigeon, Tokyo, which lives in the alert shack...
...hoped to move sentimental Americans to protest against the continued Allied air attack on railways, power stations, airdromes, war plants in Occupied France. Following his evocation of the boulevards and the fashions, the broadcaster said: "One cannot forget the war in Paris. Night & day one must be on the alert for the dreadful air-raid alarms, and be prepared to go to the cellar if he cares for his life." Axis news pictures have played up the same theme. One, probably genuine, showed Parisians in panic at the Longchamps races, during a raid on the nearby Renault aircraft plant...