Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brass Hats. The Anzio press corps fought an extraordinarily hot engagement (punctuated by a bombing alert) against General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, who accused the correspondents of "blowing hot and cold" in their reports of the month-long beachhead battle. The doughty commander of Allied armies in Italy charged the newsmen with "alarming the people" by switching from overoptimism to overpessimism, was "very disappointed that you should put out such rot." Day before, as a penalty for "such rot," his staff had cut the correspondents' use of the beachhead's radio to Naples, by which the Allied press...
This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...
...pilot), two if he is physically exhausted. Men should wait for the exhaustion point before taking benzedrine, because the drug works best if it is taken then. Doses can be repeated, but nobody should take more than 30 milligrams in one week. Sleep postponed by a "benzedrine alert" must be made up later on. To end a benzedrine alert, take a mild sedative...
...trail through tall grasses dipping through a dry creek bed. At first light next morning Mohl placed his men like a football coach running signal practice. At 9:40 a.m. a native scout posted 400 yards ahead ran back: six Japs coming. The enemy approached cautiously, rifles at the alert, walking single file, spaced about five yards apart...