Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another occasion a professor was alert enough to douse sudden flames in a wastebasket in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. If he had not been there, gallons of inflammable alcohol would have caught fire and destroyed the building...
...chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives (1948-49), and as Ike's link with Congress (1953-58) make him alert to congressional sensitivities and sensibilities. He may not manage his time-or Ike's-with quite such crisp efficiency as Adams did. But perhaps because they like him better Congressmen consider him by far the more effective of the two. Says a White House staffer: "The problem...
...shape of things to come in Easter bonnets-and most other hats-is largely determined by a short, pert, alert woman who is one of the U.S.'s most successful businesswomen. Sally Victor, 54, is not.only the biggest fashion hatmaker (more than $500,000 a year) in the multimillion-dollar millinery business (1958 sales: $300 million), but she is a trend setter (along with such designers as Mr. John and Lilly Dache), the only milliner to win the Coty award, fashion world "Oscar." Her $55-to-$90 creations (up to $1,000 with fur or jewelry) soon reappear...
...cumulative" poet interested in a flowing effect, Hodgson shuns brilliant images that grasp the eye. His life is the same way. Passersby are shocked at the disrepair of the farm that he has never worked, at the unruly weeds that he lets grow. An alert, clear-eyed man who looks 20 years younger than his age, Hodgson has no time for such practical things ("Time, you old gypsy man, / Will you not stay, / Put up your caravan / Just for one day?"). Says he in his musing, friendly tone: "What we have to consider is the brevity of life." His real...
...River, with ominous consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore. If an emergency had to be policed in Nyasaland, reasoned London, better outside troops than Rhodesian vigilantes, whose presence would stir the fears and emotions of the blacks...