Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hush, mother," cried her daughter. "Someone may hear you! Besides, I think the rats are going to attack again." In tense silence the two women waited. In silence, millions of rats, heads erect, whiskers vibrant, beady eyes alert, waited for that mass impulse, unreasoned but irresistible, which would be the signal for their hordes to remove these last human obstructions to the rat world...
...port officials were on the alert last week against a possible mongoose invasion. The furry, weasel-like creatures are treasured pets of many U.S. soldiers stationed in Hawaii, where the commonest mammals are mongooses. Many a G.I. will probably try to smuggle his mongoose back to the mainland. If a few succeed, the effect on U.S. wild life and crops may be disastrous...
...bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
Five hundred and fifteen scientists who were engaged in war research on the atomic bomb at Harvard and M.I.T. released a statement Wednesday to plead for international control of atomic energy and to "alert the American people and government to the terrible consequences of an armament race with atomic weapons...
...suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur's army and air force in the Philippines. It implied a nation ever on the alert, ready to strike before it was struck...