Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop with a sample case jammed into a Pullman berth; today they jet across greatly expanded territories while their sample cases ride in the luggage compartment as air freight rather than as expensive excess baggage. In the era of the seven-league sell, salesmen also have to be more alert. Sales managers jet around, too, and more often than not they skim off big and previously inaccessible customers for the home-office account. Then there are the more frequent visits from the top. "Any time the boss is in an area," says Earl C. Janson, manufacturing director of Beckman Instruments...
Contemptuous of Capitalists. After the war, Kennedy left for more profitable pastures in New York, where he plunged into the stock market, earning a reputation as a clever bear. Always alert for a fast buck, he went to Hollywood in 1926, bought a film company, and started turning out low-budget potboilers. He became banker and confidant to Gloria Swanson, who named an adopted son after him. Kennedy, however, made the mistake of putting her in one of his pictures, Queen Kelly, which featured such gamy scenes as a priest administering the last rites to a madman dying...
...This opera is made for the audience," Tom Webber, a sophomore who plays Don Alfonso, Mozart's embodiment of deception, broke in. "If they're alert, they'll get it." Tom gets lots of chances to play directly to his audience while being deceptive, coming to the front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing...
...Indonesian-trained saboteurs, terrorists and guerrillas landed over the past three months, 47 were killed and 187 captured. Last week, when Sukarno issued his customary order to "intensify" the campaign, 20 more guerrillas sailed off by sampan to Malaya and Singapore -and were soon being hotly pursued by alert British-led troops and citizens, who can collect $300 for every interloper captured. Still, Indonesia's flourishing Communist Party (3,000,000 members) insists that Malaysia must be crushed and last week added to Sukarno's troubles by inaugurating an equally absurd "crush American imperialism" drive on the pretext...
...Unlike their predecessors, the Concord Minutemen of 1775, the embattled businessmen standing by the rude Weeks Bridge will not fire a warning shot. They will run to Eliot House and blow a whistle to awake Mrs. Finely, who will alert the volunteers by telephone. Mrs. Finley thinks it would be a shame 'if the trees were chopped down while we lay in our beds snug and warm" CRIMSON...