Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team gets twenty (20) bits in an afternoon of competition, there must be something odd some-where Yesterday the strange element was the pitching of the University of Massachusetts at Fort Devens, which was just about sufficient to get the ball over the plate where it was clouted by alert home players...
Douglas wants a "strong, alert, and mobile military machine" to back up this course of action. Whether he feels Universal Military Training and Selective Service necessary is undisclosed. Specific declarations may have to wait until closer to convention-time. For the moment the Justice has set forth a liberal credo that is remarkable in vision and courage...
...course, were professionally interested in the South African press and in the newspaper men who conduct it. They turned out to be an alert and very enterprising group of journalists, and their newspapers reflect those attributes. I was impressed by the knowingness of their questions about the forthcoming Presidential election in the U.S. and by their knowledge of the U.S.'s role in world affairs...
...defenses were almost as airtight. Time and time again Crimson attacks were foiled by alert man-to-man defense, which--appropriately enough--covered its opponents with bulldog tenacity...
After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...