Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard victory will depend more on whether or not the Crimson can stop the option and belly series run by Terhes. His fake hand-off to either halfback and his keep around the end have resulted in many dangerous runs in the past. Alert and aggressive play by the tackles and ends will be the only way to stop...
Possibly all this indicates a more alert awareness on the part of the latter group of the nuclear holocaust such a conflict would almost certainly entail--as well as a greater reluctance to identify the survival of a North American nation-state with the good of higher culture everywhere and for all time. If so, a deeper moral concern with the fate of this world may be adumbrated here--as well as a strikingly universal sense of direct ethical responsibility...
...another old Navyman, added his cool counsel to Nixon's, and the mood of the convention changed. The Legion's high command hastily redrafted its resolution. In the final, milder version, there was no criticism of Ike, and the Legion merely "counseled" the U.S. public to be alert, accepting "the Russian Premier's visit with that dignity common only to free men while holding fast to the thought and determination there will be no compromise . . ." After approving the resolution by acclamation, the Legion proceeded to elect its new national chairman: Martin Boswell McKneally, 44, a bachelor lawyer...
...archaeologists; it seems to go against reason. So does the presence of two distinct physical types side by side throughout Olmec art: one lean and aquiline, the other Negroid. Meyer's two ambassadors from the lost Olmec world display both types. They are not gods, apparently, but men-alert and still, and perhaps forever strange...
...speaker, who demanded they be "cleansed." Asked about the Red general's remarks, Nehru commented: "It would be an extremely foolish person who would make the remarks attributed to this gentleman." As for the "very large Chinese forces all over Tibet." said Nehru, India "is quite awake and alert over the matter...