Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid was not a total surprise as reported. Early in the morning we had an "alert," and later an "urgent" warning. We first knew the show was on when an anti-aircraft battery near the Kawasaki factory district opened up on one of the two Tokyo raiders. A second plane flew within half a mile of our camp and came within an inch of destruction. A Jap battery of eight guns found the exact range at which the B-25 was flying and let go at it. The first shots were a little ahead of the plane, and the second...
...Switzerland an eyewitness fresh from Germany told the Schweizer Bauzeitung: "Air raids have had a terrible effect. Western Germany just celebrated its 10,000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack, but houses are left in ruins to be rebuilt after the war. Despite all Germany's military successes, there is no trace of confidence among the people. All they want is peace." The German civilian Luftschutz (air defense) organization had changed its name to Selbstschutz (self-defense), was conscripting everyone...
...Colonel Lindley W. Camp, head of the Georgia State Guard, ordered the Guard to be on the alert for trouble: "There have been reported efforts on the part of Negro men and women to demand certain privileges which are not granted in Georgia and which never will...
...committee wholeheartedly requests students always to keep on the alert for anything which they can contribute in order to make this campaign a success. Collections can be made at all times. Whenever an entry representative is notified of an article to be salvaged, he will come around for it and take it to the scrap room in the House...
...Miss Mac" is no career-type Amazon. Alert, bright-eyed, jaunty, she leavens a business-like matter-of-factness with quick wit and brisk speech. She is trim, well-dressed, efficient and, as she puts it, she has fallen for the Navy...