Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation looked to its coastline warily. Coast Guardsmen, now reinforced and armed with rifles, patrolled the sandy beaches (see cut). Everywhere the full alert was ordered. There must be no second invasion of spies and saboteurs. The first eight that had been caught, spewed up on U.S. shores like Jonahs from the bellies of U-boats (TIME, July 6), last week were assured of a swift trial...
...November 1941, Cordell Hull strongly warned Army & Navy chiefs that the Far Eastern crisis had outstripped the bounds of diplomacy. Two weeks before Pearl Harbor he suggested that all hands in the Pacific be alert against a big-scale attack that would "stampede the hell out of our scattered forces...
...this change of heart is no New Dealer. He is, in fact, a Republican. He heads two electrical businesses in Spokane and helps direct a dozen other enterprises. He is 45 years old, an ex-Marine captain, looks like the smart up-from-small-beginnings businessman he is. Alert, informal, friendly, Johnston differs from other executives primarily in having a keener sense of public relations, a clearer realization that business cannot talk its way back into public confidence, that the best kind of propaganda is the right kind of action...
Canny Showman Cohan knew what he was doing when he insisted that Irish Jimmy Cagney was the one cinemactor who could play him. Smart, alert, hardheaded, Cagney is as typically American as Cohan himself. Like Cohan, he has a transparent personal honesty, a basic audience appeal. Like Cohan, he was once a hoofer...
...they began to buckle down. When Brigadier General James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo, they worked a little faster, got a little more tense. When War Secretary Stimson predicted Jap face-saving raids as a certainty, civilian volunteers began to hold nightly drills. The Coast went on a 24-hour alert...