Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alert or sympathetic reader can see, at times, what he is driving at. He is always puzzling over the same insoluble, kaleidoscopic riddle: "reality" v. "imagination." In the book's last poem, he asks...
...Alert. In Manhattan, an enterprising advertiser took space in the New York Herald Tribune: BACKYARD BOMB SHELTER PLANS...
...nagging little ones. They staged nerve-racking blusters, such as last Whitsuntide's giant Red youth rally. They pushed an industrial speed-up and other possible war preparations in East Germany (see cut). Most ominous, they rapidly expanded the 50,000 men in the Bereitschaften, the tank-equipped "alert units" within East Germany's so-called police force that numbered well over...
...crippled before it ever got orders to strike back. LeMay has a hunch that SAC itself offers a more tempting initial target for an all-out Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay's side in case of trouble. It is why, too-though they know the decisions...
...busy last week trying to prove that most of his life had been misspent. For more than 40 years, Dr. John Zahorsky had specialized in pediatrics and practiced in big St. Louis hospitals. Now 79, Dr. Zahorsky was back in his old home town, bent on proving that an alert country doctor can do as much with a minimum of modern equipment as a passel of specialists with all the shiny facilities of a big-city hospital...