Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere is nicer in the house dining halls than in the Union. With wider tables, you don't have to shake hands with just anybody who drags his sleeve in you mashed potatoes. People soon learn the proper, vaguely distant expression, the limp handshake, the alert, interested way of seeming to listen to someone at the next table--all the marks of the development of really good manners...
...test will also give the city an opportunity to test its new siren signals: a steady three-minute blast for "alert," whooping or quick short blasts for "take cover," and another three-minute blast for "evacuation...
...Playing alert defensive ball, 'Cliffe guards Ellen Deitsch, Anne Gordon, and Margaret Smertenko held Pine Manor forwards scoreless in the third quarter. The yellow-clad lassies rallied to score 11 points in the final period against Radcliffe's seven, but failed to catch up to the hot, early-game pace set by the home team...
Students may have to throw down their exam books and leave Cambridge in June as a part of a nation-wide Civil Defense alert...
Rowell and Van Rennes believe that this basic principle of "exercising" the monitor to prove that it is still alert can be applied to anything from airplane controls to chemical factories. It will not keep them from failing, but it should make them "fail safe," even when the electronic watchman has died...