Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
...DeLee was a pioneer in obstetrical movies. Many of his devoted students who had just come from the Chicago funeral saw the gentle, goateed, slender man with the dark, alert eyes once again at the Congress-in one of his movies. The film instructed doctors on breech presentation (buttocks or feet first instead of head). Dr. DeLee made 16 such movies, paying half the expense of all of them. He always looked for a pretty blonde mother to take the leading role...
...Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear of the "alert" Japanese into the very heart of town. They killed some Japanese and vanished, except for a smile-for they had found they could lick more than their own weight in Japanese...
...draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft afloat, and is 100% effective at the close ranges in which it operates...
...Hudson Motor Car's naval ordnance plant advertised in the Detroit papers for "A1 toolmakers-age limits 45 to 98 years." Hudson is glad it did: at week's end scores of alert, experienced, comparatively young men had signed up. With these men at work, the company expects an immediate boost in production, a cut in training costs. Said the plant personnel boss: "Hell, we'll take them up to 100 years old if we can get them...