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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short decided that an anti-sabotage alert was enough. This was the position in which the Jap carrier planes found him, with his planes parked wing-to-wing on the airstrips and his guards on the qui vive for saboteurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pearl Harbor Report: Who Was to Blame? | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: I Am Very Optimistic | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...think that when a man reaches senior rank his mind automatically shuts? Such a generalization is ridiculous. Of course, there are some brass hats who are stuffed shirts. There are also countless numbers of them who are alert, open-minded men spending every ounce of thought, knowledge and energy they possess (and that is a lot) in running the Army and Navy with little glory and certainly not much understanding and appreciation to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Reader Honsinger says, some brass hats (like some bigwigs) are stuffed shirts. But in using such a useful common. term, TIME intends no derogation to the alert and able officers who boss the U.S. war machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Walter Winchell's blonde, 18-year-old actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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