Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Condition. Continues good. He is physically active and mentally alert. His appearance, appetite and digestion are excellent. His height is 71 inches and his weight is 168 pounds...
...cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last; three scugnizzi emerged from the shadows and entered with him. The surprised custodian, alert to the secret, fed Father Borelli bread and jam with the others, even though this breaking of the fast after midnight kept him from saying Mass the next morning. "This seems like a movie to me," he whispered as he passed the food around...
...began to stream up the hill toward St. Nicholas Cathedral. The church was half-filled at 10, when Egypt's fat ex-King Farouk (the only even near representative of royalty to appear) came lumbering up the carpeted central staircase that was reserved for the bridal party. An alert guard decoyed him to one side. Seated way up front was Britain's frail old Author Somerset Maugham, complaining of cold feet. Near by sat swart Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than...
Last week, as the zero hour for the student demonstration approached, all Spain was alert, eyes expectantly concentrated on the big cities of Madrid and Barcelona. But it was in the Navarre mountain-encircled city of Pamplona (pop. 73,000), famed for its bullfight fiesta, that the trouble started...
...receiving end of the battery, Dave Fairburn has a good grasp on the position. Though a slow runner, he has shown slugging power. With alert playing in the first game Fairburn started a double play pick-off. Larry McCully, who played the second game behind the plate, is pressing Fairburn. Sylvester Sterioff is the third catcher...