Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb was dropped at noon, when the students were lunching in the school cafeteria. (Charges were made that the alert was not sounded until afterward.) Ordinarily many of the children would have gone home for their noonday meal, but on this day they had stayed to see a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream...
Chicago Daily News's alert, emotional Leland Stowe had the first. Last summer Correspondent Stowe won the Kremlin's gratitude by carrying a torch for aid to Russia. He was rewarded by a journalistic triumph-permission to visit the Rhzev front, west of Moscow...
Japan is curled like a cobra at the back door of China. Last week Japan was cobra-quiet, but China and her allies were alert. U.S. and R.A.F. planes harassed the enemy from the air. Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops...
DECEMBER 9--Trial air raid, first in Harvard history, finds college on alert...
...echoing hallways. A group of three or four other men appeared; the young officers fired in their general direction; the men fled. Some one heard a key turning in a keyhole. Part of the group stormed the door, broke it down, and came on the Prime Minister, a tiny, alert man of 75, and his daughter-in-law, holding a baby. The Prime Minister calmly invited them into the room, lit a cigaret and started a polite conversation...