Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undetermined number of bombers came over an unidentified portion of an unmentioned European country, on an unstated day ('recently' is the official word for it). There was no weather. Had there been, it would have been considered a military secret. The alert sounded at no particular hour because the enemy-one hesitates to label them with a proper name-are not supposed to know the right time...
Like U. S. Congressmen, U. S. educators keep an alert ear cocked at their constituents. They seldom hear much. Aside from a noisy minority of taxpayers, patriots and zealous parents, most citizens take their schools for granted, do little kibitzing. But last week, in a Gallup poll arranged by the American Council on Education and its subsidiary, the American Youth Commission, the U. S. people told what they thought about their schools. Some findings...
Fresh from its recent defeat by the Vassar Miscellany News in which all the passes made by Dick "J. Press" Tweedy were batted down by the alert female secondary, the Eli inkslingers could offer little resistance to the CRIMSON outfit which boasts a season record of 23 wins and only two defeats...
...Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later...
...Ottawa, the Governor General's lady, alert, peppery Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, founded an organization with the aim of aiding Frenchmen living in Britain (onefourth of the Canadian population is French). Her advice to knitters: "Don't forget French feet are smaller. Knit them size 9½ to 10½ instead of the big socks needed for Canadians...