Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said they were behind the East in preparations (Eleanor Roosevelt had said just the opposite), but their complacency was restored when he added that Portland was better prepared than San Francisco and cities to the south. Actually, 75,000 Portlanders are schooled in civilian defense and regularly on the alert, but the other 250,000 peoples are merely excited...
Last month, tall, lean British Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, a vital, soft-spoken Scot, visited Malta and saw with his own shrewd eyes what was happening. He promised to send reinforcements and keep on sending them. On Saturday, when the alert sounded, swarms of Spitfires rose to meet the Luftwaffe attack, tore through the screen of Messerschmitts that was protecting Junkers bombers, sent one after another on flaming nose dives into...
...could a 63-year-old slither down a makeshift rope from a cliff-walled Nazi fortress? How could a politically important prisoner escape from such a feudal bastion, guarded every hour by men alert to his potential value? Why would such an escaped prisoner walk into the arms of stooges working in handcuff harmony with his erstwhile captors...
...pointed out that during blackouts people who take them seriously often feel "that some great cosmic thing was about to happen, as though creation were about to occur and a new world were to be born." Said he: "I suggest that while the protective forces are on the physical alert all other residents of Westchester declare a spiritual alert between the warning siren and the all-clear signal so that persons may, in solemn unison, lift up their hearts in prayer for the safety of our armed forces and civilians alike in a mighty plea for victory." In the area...
Deglamorization of the week was performed by an alert news photographer at Sun Valley, who caught the handsome face of Cinemactress Norma Shearer registering desolation after she had missed a clay pigeon...