Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janos Kadar, went to Budapest Polytechnic University, where a student demonstration set off last year's revolt. "You may swathe yourselves in millions of meters of our national colors; you may sing the national anthem from morning to night," but it will do no good, he said. His alert cops arrested 1,200 Hungarians in July, Marosan went on. At this point some students got up and left the hall. "Our ranks are becoming thinner, my young student friends," said Marosan. "It is just as well that they depart, one by one, because it is quite hopeless for them...
...live coverage on the day the 101st Airborne took over at Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved...
...Force Captain George H. French of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks...
From somewhere southeast of Greenland came the crackle of an urgent radio message: "Being fired on by Orange surface raider. Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time...
...hand is not shaking. I am not weeping or hiding under my desk. I am cheerful and alert. I face life with optimism. This agency will go on." Such was the almost joyful reaction of Executive Vice President Charles Brower of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn last week as he announced the loss of Revlon, Inc.'s $8,000,000 account...