Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary. In a class by himself was young, handsome Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department career man functioning as international secretary general. Relaxed and alert amid innumerable annoyances, Hiss was master of the incredibly complicated conference machinery. The wheels turned. A charter of world organization was taking shape...
Then came the details, dictated slowly and carefully. Dark-haired, alert, Brooklyn-born Edward Kennedy, 39, chief of A.P. war coverage in Europe, had the scoop of a lifetime. Midway in his story, the telephone connection faded...
...warm spring night, a lovely night for a stroll. As the Marquis sauntered serenely down the quiet street, two alert carabinieri passed. They sniffed. The rare and mouth-watering fragrance of the Marquis' cigaret was unmistakably American. The carabinieri exchanged an eloquent look, and strode after the Marquis. It is a black-market offense for an Italian in Rome to possess American or British cigarets. Sure enough, the carabinieri found two packs of Chesterfields in the Marquis' pockets. Into the pokey he went, for the night...
...fair, OPA may still have to admit that it had moved in too abruptly on the retailers. One alert merchant lost no time in giving OPA an example to prove...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route...