Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alert let go its giant banshee wail-"Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!"-a dreadful, penetrating warble, like no other sound on earth. A boy's voice said: "Don't worry, sis, I'll look after you. We'll get in the air-raid shelter just like the practice at school...
...into the fields. I could hear, faintly, how car after car changed gear as it went up the steep hill out of the town towards the road that runs west. There was a most extraordinary feeling in the air as if the whole country, from end to end, was alert and waiting. The very houses and trees and hedges seemed to be crouching down against the earth and listening. The night was full of rustling and whispering as if hundreds of people were talking and moving about very quietly. There were no planes. Nothing in the sky but the stable...
Frequently rued is the trend toward newspaper mergers, one-publisher cities, an alleged trend, in consequence, toward fewer, less varied and alert newspapers. But inevitably appearing to bar a way out is the rising cost of paper, plant equipment, labor, taxes...
Last week London got its first and only bombing during July. After 32 peaceful nights the 2 a.m. alert signal-567th since the war began-so startled many Londoners that they turned on their lights before pulling their blackout curtains and got a dressing down from the air-raid wardens...
Paper Ammunition. A Russian Army communique told how an observer spotted three Germans crawling on their bellies toward a Russian barbed-wire entanglement. The Russian commander ordered his men to hold fire, be alert. One of the Germans reached the entanglement and pinned to the barbed wire a sheet of paper, then turned back. The Russians ran out and read the inscription. According to the communique, it said in German: "Down with bloodthirsty Hitler...