Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Task Force Kean"* (the 35th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, the 5th Regimental Combat Team and elements of the 1st Marine Division which landed last fortnight) jumped off, Negro units holding a flanking ridge were due to be relieved by marines. But alert North Koreans slipped in, beat back the marines, brought up machine guns and artillery, opened fire on the vehicle-crammed road and on U.S. artillery positions and command posts...
...months ago, life seemed to be smiling on Accountant John H. Haire Jr. and his wife. They had a home outside Memphis, near the airport. They had two healthy boys, aged 7 and 2½. The new dark-haired baby girl rounded out their family. Becky was bright and alert: soon her blue eyes seemed to be following as her mother walked across the room...
...should look to the Court for a substantial restraint on legislative action which impairs the right of Americans to speak without fear. At the same time, let us not forget that the preservation of our liberty depends ultimately on the American people, for without a people who are alert and sensitive to its value no nation can long enjoy liberty...
...corollaries of this editorial attitude have been our advocacy of a strong military establishment for the defense of the U.S. and a more alert, aggressive and realistic foreign policy. In particular, TIME gave due warning of the disastrous failure of U.S. policy in Asia...
...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...