Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit tugged nervously at his socks, squirmed on his chair, periodically leaped up to loose a volley of abuse at a panting Kentucky player. Out on the floor of Louisville's Freedom Hall, the University of Kentucky basketball team was botching plays, losing passes, defending raggedly against an alert Illinois team. Coach Adolph Rupp relaxed only when a last-ditch Illinois shot rolled harmlessly off the rim, preserving a 76-75 Kentucky victory. Sighed the Baron: "That one nearly killed...
...gentleman from little Dahomey delivered a speech while waving three placards at once. Regrettably, one of the most colorful heads of delegation was not heard. He went by the name of Cissé Zakaria, and called himself Crown Prince of Mauretania and General of the Liberation Army, but an alert Accra hotel clerk quickly tagged him as the deadbeat who had run up a ?79 bill on previous visits to Accra, and he was advised to leave town by the earliest possible plane...
Kassem ordered Baghdad into a state of alert, and two Iraqi air force jet squadrons flew over the capital in a show of strength. Taking no chances, the U.S. and British embassies ordered their nationals off the streets (and thus had little inkling of what was going on). Kassem's soldiers searched all cars for arms and ammunition. To add to the drama, Staff Major Salim Alfakhri, Iraq's director of broadcasting, went on Iraqi TV to display sporting guns, pistols, knives and brass knuckles that, he said, were to have been used in the plot. Communist-line...
...general direction of the jet stream is from west to east; jetliners flying westward will usually pick their courses and altitudes to avoid it. But sometimes the jet stream or the current associated with it loops into a westerly direction. When the charts reveal such a shift, an alert pilot might get a jet stream assist both coming and going...
Commander of it all is Louisiana-born Major General David Wade, Atlas-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 210 lbs.) command pilot (7,000 hours) who served (1956-57) as SAC chief of staff to the father of alert deterrence, Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. Wade's command includes the new SAC 704th Strategic Missile Wing at Vandenberg and two Jupiter squadrons now at Huntsville, Ala. In SAC's businesslike way, Wade now enforces "maximum security" on the base, will soon reinforce his armed guards with sentry dogs...