Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME chose these special correspondents for their professional skill as well as for a firsthand knowledge of their cities and regions. Their job is to alert TIME'S editors to spot news of national interest, and to keep them informed on upcoming events and on the changing grassroots moods of the country...
...decided to work early in the morning, taking into consideration Freud's daily routine. One day Freud changed his schedule and ran into me. He appeared alert and vivacious, much younger than his 82 years. I had to leave Austria in a hurry shortly thereafter, and I left the pictures and negatives with Dr. Aichhorn. After Aichhorn's death my negatives were sent to Miss Anna Freud, who kept them and handed them back to me in 1954 in London...
...Supreme Court decisions the films may not be banned on general charges of immorality or sacrilegiousness. "The Legion of Decency must therefore bear a heavier load in the struggle to maintain propriety . . . It is not enough for Catholics to be on guard against personal mortal sin. They must be alert to the social aspects of motion picture morality...
...night in Portland an alert police reporter for the Oregonian (circ. 230,238) noted that there were suddenly no detectives around police headquarters. Sniffing a story, he demanded an explanation from the police chief. The chief kept mum a secret that was being withheld even from the paper's night city desk: detectives were out guarding the Oregonian's Reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert and their families while the pair were digging into one of the messiest official scandals in Northwest history...
Situation Normal. Emboldened by such an open airing of clever chuletas, some professors, far from trying to bury them, praised them. To Dr. José Maria Pi y Suñer, dean of the University of Barcelona's law school, a good chuleta is the mark of an alert student who has pored long and well over his lessons. Citing the exceptional case of a deaf student whose answers were perfect in an oral examination on canon law, Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent...