Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significance of ADA's full-dress show? The rank-and-file members total under 25,000. These are predominantly on campuses (school affiliate Students for Democratic Action boasts half of the 190 chapters) and in the middle-class ranks of socially alert physicians, lawyers, and businessmen--a nebulous tidbit of independent voters politicians understandably have chosen to ignore during the organizational growing-pain months. Its leadership has furthermore consisted largely of intellectuals and ex-bureaucrats of the Roosevelt period whose current strength in public affairs is negligible for all practical purposes...
...Philadelphia, an alert civic organization investigated some mysterious communications, relaxed when it learned that the initials on the notes belonged to one Katherine K. Kirk...
...Eyes Are Still Raised." He joined the Executive Committee of the United Irishmen when their ablest leaders were in prison or exile. Like the American revolutionaries, Emmet and his fellows pinned bright hopes on French military assistance. The British government, fully alert to this threat, had spies planted even in the top drawers of the French War Department...
Acting as co-ordinator for the student testimony, Cater claimed that Communist teachers present little danger to "alert and politically responsible students," who can figure the truth out for themselves...
Cater cited the many graduates and undergraduates present to testify as proof that students are now "more alert and responsible than ever." When these representatives were cross-examined, he remarked after the session, "they held up well, and showed they had thought cut the problems for themselves...