Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, 75 Japanese carrier-based planes attacked the harbor, airport and railway of Colombo, on the island of Ceylon, India's very appendix. Ceylon was alert, and the defenders rose up and knocked down 32 of the enemy, more than one in three. This score suggested that the British may be better stocked with aircraft in India than in Burma, but it also acutely reminded the Allies that every mile of the Japanese advance in Burma was also an advance on India. As a further reminder the Japanese next day bombed two towns on India...
...last week it suppressed ten newspapers which had printed documented accounts of German concentration-camp brutalities in Norway. An Army of 30 highly trained divisions, under General Ivar Holmquist, is tough and ready after winter exercises. The trim little Swedish Navy under Vice Admiral Fabian Tamm was on the alert. But the suspense was painful...
Asserting that boxing develops the spirit of alertness, Henry N. Lamar, Varsity boxing coach, outlined plans to include fisticuff instruction in the new compulsory athletic program. Lamar plans to "eliminate the frills" in the proposed program to turn out aggressive and alert army material...
...daylight hours enemy bombers smashed at the artillery which, with outnumbered manpower, was Singapore's chief hope of salvation. After nightfall enemy fire knocked out the searchlights that had fingered the shoreline, alert for infiltration. From then until late moonrise the enemy landed secretly and crept silently through shoreline marshes, headed for the Singapore end of the Causeway. They came in increasing numbers, careless of casualties. Machine gun bullets struck sparks on steel landing craft the Japs were using to cross from Johore. The defending troops fell back and fell back again...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...