Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a three point lead and four minutes to go Cornell started to stall but alert Bill Webber put an end to this policy. Retrieving the ball on a bad pass from Jolly, Webber made a fast break down the floor and bounced a pass through three racing Cornell defenders to Joe Romance, who flipped it through the hoop...
...West was Gibraltar, and even the Rock was surrounded by potential enmity-an Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
...Crimson power plays were responsible for all three of the winning markers. Defensemen Sherm Gray and Stacy Hulse both of whom played almost all of the game, came up inside the Williams blue line while the first line was on the ice, and this strategy enabled the alert Ayres to capitalize on his long reach often enough to give the Reddermen their first victory of the season...
...same meeting in Atlantic City last fortnight where preliminary plans were made for the merger, Dean Weigle was elected to the job. Looking younger than his 60 years, alert, square-set Dean Weigle, a longtime leader of the Federal Council, the International Council of Religious Education and a dozen similar organizations, is persuasive rather than oratorical...
Throughout the contest, the alert Crimson forwards, Joe Romane, Captain Franny Simpson, and Bill Webber succeeded in keeping the Lashmen on their heels. Harvard's zone defense system, which scored so well against M.I.T. and Brown had another good night, keeping the high scoring co-captain duet of Bill Sinnamon and Jack Kay so far away that they had few close-up shots...