Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white chauvinism inherent in this whole case. I deserved the alert criticism that has come...
...like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives sedately with his alert, unaffected wife (19 years his junior) and their sturdy eleven-year-old son, Arthur MacArthur, in the palatial U.S. embassy...
...should be obvious by now that in spite of what the voters endorsed in November, Congress is not going to indulge in any whole-hearted repeal of Taft-Hartley. If Administration leaders had been alert enough to compromise at the right moment, they could have put through a bill which might have repealed such legislative larceny as the ban on the closed shop even if it retained items like the non-communist affidavit and the union financial reports. They missed their opportunity; it will now be increasingly difficult to pass any new law with the opposition unified...
...Alert police surrounded the Harvard Coop yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m. after an alarm had gone off ten minutes earlier inside the building...
...alert editors of Moscow's Pravda, however, were not to be taken in by any such fairy tale. Historical materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather...