Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well camouflaged, lazy-looking spots became busy, alert shacks, anti-aircraft pits, airplanes. On the flanks of planes could be seen the pilots' emblem-a droopy-tailed dragon with the motto: "Our Assam Draggin...
...last week the bungalow where Homer Sanders has his headquarters was quiet except for the routine chatter of typewriters. Suddenly a sergeant rushed upstairs shouting: "Red alert!" Men clattered downstairs. Telephones jangled. The radio in the control room crackled...
...experienced Navy men, these officers have been alert to the problems of the new unit and have shown themselves ready and willing to help...
After classes, Bishopshalt bustles like any U.S. school with clubs, sports, publications, dramatics. The children are well-mannered, alert to world affairs. The morning after the Beveridge Report appeared (it makes no provisions for schools), the headmaster was besieged with pupils' requests for copies...
...Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...