Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News from the Canal. For two years his family had only the briefest notes from him as he made the rounds of Quantico, Parris Island, New River. He was a natural soldier, quick, alert and full of quiet, easy leadership. His buddies gave him their highest accolade-"a good marine." He was made a corporal, then a sergeant. One day a note came to Raritan on brown wrapping paper from a place called Guadalcanal. "I have arrived safely," was all it said. John's family mailed him paper and pencils, but for all the good it did they might...
...night in October 1942, "Manila John" Basilone (his endless store of Philippine yarns had won him the nickname) lay wet, miserable and alert in his foxhole. He heard the sudden crack of bullets. The Japs were attacking...
...armies up to a practically unbroken 150-mile front on the Rhine, from Nijmegen to Coblenz. The amazing U.S. crossing at Remagen was a great credit, not only to the local heroes, but to the Supreme Commander himself, who had passed word down the chain of command to be alert for any opportunity and aggressive to seize...
Last week William Wyer, 49, the alert, calculating chief executive officer of C.N.J., decided to resort to some fancy bookkeeping, thereby transferring the operations and a fleet of C.N.J.'s engines and cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval...
...alert Reader Singley, whose X-ray facts are substantially correct,* TIME'S red-faced congratulations for a likely solution of the "Spectral Appendectomy" mystery...