Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outplayed by an alert Princeton Jayvee outfit, Coach Henry Lamar's Junior Varsity eleven went down to defeat 14 to 6 yesterday afternoon...
...good that the night was clear; mud could be a great handicap. The drivers were alert; the coolies worked hard, chanting as they loaded the trucks; the mechanics checked over the engines as if they were airplanes. There was a wonderful electric atmosphere. Even the Chinese drivers refrained from drinking. Some of the Burmese who wandered idly among the piles of stock and droves of trucks were Japanese spies, but no one seemed to care. The Burma Road was opening again...
...convoy met with an accident of a quite different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
...alert nation would have slept behind the Maginot line for nine months like we did," he asserted. "On that score and many others, the French people were deceived again and again...
Whether this was a continuation of last Spring's Smoker kidnaping and the subsequent festivities which kept deans, proctors, and police on the alert for the better part of the week was not apparent, but up to last night no signs of retaliation had stirred the citizens of Cambridge from their sleep...