Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19¼ p.m. The starting gate opens and spills a sudden glitter of color on the track. The Dancer starts an alert fifth, almost immediately drops back to eighth...
...raise our voice to alert Catholics at this moment when the worst atheistic doctrine of all time-anti-Christian Communism-continues its brazen inroads in our country, masquerading as a movement of social reform for the needy classes . . . Our frontiers are opened wide to a rabble of foreign adventurers trained in the tactics of international Communism. In violations of the laws of the land, ample freedom is given them. From the official radio stations are heard the incessant preaching of social disruption and the broadcasting of the teachings of the Soviet Politburo. Newsstands are flooded with Communist literature...
Real Job. "We are determined," said Brownell, "to destroy the effectiveness of the Communist movement in this country . . . Although we must be constantly alert to the danger of Communist infiltration, we should not have exaggerated fears." By the time he got through, Herb Brownell had done more than outline the Administration's coordinated program-"within the framework of the Constitution"-against the internal Communist threat. He had done his best to dismiss McCarthyism as irrelevant to the real job of fighting Communism...
...character is harder to define than his interests: he should be generally free from anxiety, insecurity and aversions, and immune to annoyances; not easily swayed by suggestion and emotionally stable. While alert and able to do things fast, he is restrained in thought, perception and action. Concerned about making a good impression on others, he already has a good one of himself; he must have an inner need to be conscientious, persevering and hardworking. Above all, he must have good self-control...
...turned out, the Times itself was the first paper to break the release. After putting their first edition to press, alert Times staffers spotted Drew Pearson's column in the early edition of the New York Daily Mirror. It was all about the H-bomb film, including a description of the "monstrous fireball . . . three miles in diameter." Since it seemed to the Times that Drew Pearson had broken the release date, Reston advised his office to run the story on the H-bomb film in later editions, but without the pictures.- Then Reston called the Washington bureaus...