Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green also has the edge along the line in experience and speed. The thin Red Line of Harvard has played alert and some times ferocious ball according. Tribe scout Elmer Lampe. But usually tires in the second half it should crumble before the power of men like Paul Staley and Tom Eberle...
...Elephants scored early in the first quarter when Dunster, held on ts own 20, was forced to kick John MacNamara, former jayee back, took the punt on hs own 40, and, behind alert blocking, ran all the way to score. The kick was good...
...Mesta, American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite of two continents," had been "enchanted" with the "charm with which the capital long has been familiar." She was "easily the 'personage...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...line as a whole is alert and follows the ball well." It has ends who can catch a pass a strong center in O'Brien, battle-wise guards in Rosenau and Kanter. Injuries in a few key spots could prove fatal to a squad which lacks real reserve strength...