Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odria, militarists up & down the hemisphere figured that they had a green light. Three days later, the Venezuelan army ousted President Rómulo Gallegos. Chile had already squelched a military plot; Costa Rica was now invaded from Nicaragua. Last week, Guatemala's liberal government was on the alert for a new move-the second in three weeks-by the military. In neighboring El Salvador, military men knocked over the regime of bumbling Salvador Castaneda Castro...
...Douglas MacArthur's alert military ear, the Communist sweep through China carried an ominous and familiar rumble. Only seven years ago, in Manila, he had seen the gathering storm of Japanese conquest. He appealed for reinforcements which could not be supplied, hopelessly watched the envelopment of the Philippines. Could Japan become a latter-day Bataan...
Only one of four second-period BU scores came in the first 15 minutes, when Jack Cropeck whistled in down the right side with a shot from 15 out. Then suddenly the Crimson defense fell apart and within a minute the alert BU forwards had transferred a 2 to 1 game into a 5 to 1 game...
...series of informal bull and beer sessions. At first no big name experts would be called in to cow the undergraduate talkers. Tutors and graduate students might be invited, but only on the understanding that they stimulate rather than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions to the Politbureau to the delayed buck, that would be all right too. The causes...
...five fumbles, two interceptions, and a pass defense that left the Harvard secondary about as well-covered as Sally Rand didn't help matters; but it was Princeton's alert football which capitalized on these breaks and snowed under the Crimson...