Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what a test pilot will be asked...
...members of a Special Committee on Education, the "Poskanzer Report" has arrived. The newest analysis of the current Harvard education is well worth the long wait. It represents in one neat package both the sentiments of a sizeable sampling of undergraduates and the synthesizing and creative thinking of an alert and acute committee which wanted to find out what was wrong or right with this education...
...sound & fury failed. Kept alert by strong black coffee, sleeping by turns inside the chamber, the anti-Communists outlasted their opponents. By a brisk vote of 342-170, De Gasperi sailed through with authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...Monro's alert news sense comes naturally. If he were not the University's able and alert Counsellor for Veterans, he would probably be a newspaperman. As undergraduate leader of the most daring journalistic venture in recent Harvard history, end later as a staffer in the News Office, he seemed headed, before the war, for a permanent berth in the Fourth Estate. Four years of administrative responsibility on an aircraft carrier made all the difference and put the erstwhile leg-man behind a desk once...
Woods v. Rules. At 55, Novelist Marquand is still trying to win repose for himself but finds it a continuing and perhaps hopeless process, with daily ups & downs. He is 5 ft. ii in., with grey hair that is white about the temples, physically alert, and dieting to reduce a slight paunchiness. He and his second wife, Adelaide Hooker Marquand, and their three young children spend most of the year on his Kent's Island farm, four miles from Newburyport. When he is writing, he starts at 9:30 a.m. and dictates for four hours. That is his limit...