Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Science Monitor's alert Correspondent Roscoe Drummond, recapitulating Taft's Western tour, reported last week that the Senator had fallen asleep in public once: at the Oregon-Texas football game. He also passed along a ditty, composed by newsmen to serenade Candidate Taft...
...alert reporter, however, discovered that in Australia the snoek is called barra-couta. He raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...
Nevertheless, reports of troop movements increased. This week Palestine watchers said they saw Syrian Arabs, some with armored cars, pitching camp across the border. An "alert" had been sent to Haganah. Somebody (police thought the Arab underground organization, Jihad) tossed a bomb into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem...
Outside the unions themselves, however, in the ranks of the politicians who speak for labor, the intellectuals who think out labor's problems, and that scattered army of professional men, students, and politically-alert citizens who fight labor's public opinion battles, a tragic breach seriously threatens labor's current political potential. This is the independent-liberal split between Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and Progressive Citizens of America...
Thanks to anti-cancer propaganda, the public is becoming aware of the importance of prompt examination (the proportion of cancer patients who now delay going to a doctor-32%-is much smaller than surveys showed nine years ago). But doctors seem to be even less alert. The Memorial Hospital experts conclude: "The patient is seeking help earlier but the physician does not appear to be taking advantage of the opportunity...