Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...
None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...
Almost alone in the U.S. press, the alert St. Louis Post-Dispatch took notice of Will Rogers' remarks. Said the Post-Dispatch last week...
...Alert, black-haired Arpaia opened the bomb-bay doors. Now he was actually bombardier, pilot and navigator rolled into one, flying the plane through the autopilot system controls while he searched for the target in the eyepiece of his bomb sight. Bombardiers in the other planes watched sharply-a sighting run may last only 20 or 30 seconds, almost never more than one minute...
...these served to underline once again Molotov's position as Stalin's friend, teammate and confidant. His years as Premier and Foreign Commissar have matured him, added to his already big stature. He is still the tough, alert, suspicious politician he was 20 years ago. But the new experience and knowledge have made him a formidable opponent at a conference table...