Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear quick bugle notes of the "Alert!" cut through the hubbub of the fidgety crowd. Field guns pounded. In the pale blue sky three huge Army bombers droned, floating swiftly over the old town, high above miles of narrow, cobbly, people-packed streets...
...Libyan naval base of Tobruch, where Graziani's main supplies were concentrated, the British claimed their bombers smashed barracks, wharves and massed trucks. British planes cracked at Sálum, others attacked Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers...
...most serious suspicion growing in British minds was that invasion might be off for the present. The very fact of this increasing relaxation of expectancy led Winston Churchill and his colleagues to be more on the alert than ever. If by letting the equinox go past, Hitler was just confusing the British, the guard must stay up. If by letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared...
...Buckingham Palace underground shelter, he decorated widows and parents of 13 Navy, Army and Air Force officers who had died in action. While the afternoon sirens moaned he visited the Air Ministry in the uniform of Marshal of the R. A. F., watched the activities during the "alert," then visited Sir John Anderson at the Home Security Ministry...
...Alert, interested, smiling, sympathetic with all sufferers, the Queen wearing her customary rope of pearls, the King pacing along with his hands behind his back, the royal couple got a warm reception...