Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but one alert photographer simply followed raincoated Father Gussoni home and snapped another picture...
...invasion forces. As early as January 1944, wily Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, then chief of German intelligence, had briefed Lieut. Colonel Hellmuth Meyer, intelligence officer and chief of a radio-monitoring unit with the Pas-de-Calais-based Fifteenth Army, on the code message with which the Allies would alert the European underground for the invasion. It consisted of the first two lines of the poem Chanson d'Automne, by the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine. During a haggard all-night listening session on June 1, one of Meyer's 30-man radio-interception crew heard and taped...
...power play," shouted a Tennessee tackle, and a quarter of a ton of Tennessee flesh hit Cannon all at once, stopped him dead. That was the ball game. L.S.U. made twice as many first downs and three times as much yardage, but fumbles, pass interceptions, and Tennessee's alert defense brought L.S.U. its first defeat, ended a 19-game winning streak...
Alexander himself is Morgan Guaranty's chief bird dog. He moves through a constant round of meetings, receptions and official dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer...
...within nine minutes after the U.S. cruiser Denver fired the first shot in the bombardment that prepared the way for MacArthur's amphibious attack, the Japanese naval command radioed: SHO1 OPERATION ALERT. Next morning came the order: EXECUTE. The Japanese fleets began converging on Leyte Gulf and the four mighty engagements that lay ahead...