Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...clock the alert sounded, calling all members of the ARP network to their posts. Exactly 30 minutes later the final signal sent all civilians to shelters. The actual test lasted until 10:50 o'clock, when the all-clear blew...
...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...
...During a recent "alert" when local and West Coast broadcasting stations were off the air, our only source of news was the BBC and Radio Tokyo. It was interesting to hear Tokyo broadcast that our town had been bombed heavily. It gave us a measuring stick for future misstatements. But it was not until TIME arrived that we learned locally that Dutch Harbor was attacked the day before Midway...
...will be greater even than in the '30s. Congress must become revitalized and strengthened. Many voters fear that the Republican Party is slowly dying. This argument cannot be met by the passage of resolutions. It can be met by sending to Congress a number of younger and more alert Republicans, with clear-cut convictions on world and social problems...