Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alert, wire-bearded churchman strode off the plane from Hong Kong one morning last week as a19-gun salute boomed across Taipei's Sungshan airport. It was an ambassador's welcome for Gregory Cardinal Agaganian, the Vatican's proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, i.e., boss of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide missions. The first man in that post ever to visit the Far East, Armenian Cardinal Agaganian came straight to the point in his airport press conference. Plainly referring to the 3,000,000 Chinese Catholics under Red rule...
...Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, placed the blame for the loss principally on the Air Force's failure to notify the observatory--headquarters for the moonwatch project--in time to alert the Moonwatch teams to search for the satellite visually. Other sources placed the blame for the secrecy that had surrounded the launching on "unfortunate interservice rivalries...
What the Air Force in particular, and the Armed Forces in general, should recognize is that publicity can consist of a relatively simple alert in advance--such as those available for the satellites and lunar probes which have been launched by the National Agency for Space and Aeronautics as part of the IGY. Attempts to conceal the entire operation may prevent public embarrassment in case of failure, but they can also diminish scientific value in case of success...
...visitors played alert, hustling basketball all the way, braving the combined forces of a smooth, poised Tiger squad and a raucous battallion of Tiger fans, most of them members of Cannon Club, one of the Big Five on Princeton's tree-lined Prospect...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), warning that the Soviets may trigger a war over Berlin, urged today an intensive 90-day program to alert the nation for any eventuality...