Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police, still baffled by two weekend robberies and one assault, are today concerned with a wave of vandalism. To combat the outbreak, Police Chief John R. King has ordered a special alert, directed primarily at route and cruising officers...
...subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...
...year executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, he once undertook to set the populace straight on the postwar housing shortage: there was no shortage at all, he said, just an "overconsumption of space." He was also the first man alert enough to link that stalwart Ohio conservative, Bob Taft, with the Communists-because Taft sponsored a public housing bill...
...studied the project carefully, he said. He doubted that there would even be enough water from the Dakotas to fill the channels and irrigation ditches which the Army engineers were busily scooping out. Whether Douglas was right or wrong, the Senate apparently did not care. Alert to the demands of their constituents, the Senators turned that amendment down...
...that it must overlook 47th Street. Once upstairs, he walked quickly to the window, looked down on the street below, satisfied himself that the view was right, then turned away and began to pace the floor, chainsmoking cigarettes. Finally he settled down to a vigil at the window. With alert brown eyes he watched the bustling traffic on the sidewalks. How many of the passers-by would stop at the Ethel Barrymore Theater across the street? How many, once they stopped, would buy tickets for the show that had just opened...