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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism are also bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet aggression," 2) political-economic aid and beefed-up world trade. 3) the exportable and basic meanings of the U.S. way of life. "It is up to us to make our freedom so rich, so dynamic, so self-disciplined that its values will be beyond dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Author Meets Critics | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...director of General Electric's Research Laboratory; of a heart attack; in Schenectady. Drafted by G.E. from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Until the day when its missile capability is completely foolproof, the U.S. Air Force intends to rely on bombers-the faster and higher-flying the better-controlled by alert crews whose accuracy and judgment are as yet superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Chemical Bomber | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

When the Browns tried to pass their way back into the game, the alert Lion defense spoiled everything with timely interceptions. When the Browns ran-even when their great Rookie Jim Brown carried-jarring Detroit tackles forced costly fumbles. And when red-dogging Brown linebackers broke through on Lion Quarterback Rote, a fine fullback named John Henry Johnson was almost always there to take a hand-off and explode up the middle on spectacular draw plays. By the end of the half, the Lions were leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sunday Dinner | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...LeMay and Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White testified that lack of funds has stalled SAC's "minimum" program for dispersing its bases and improving its capacity for getting into the air fast in an alert. The Administration, said LeMay, has done nothing since Sputnik I to speed up the minimum program, or even to restore the cuts that SAC took during the Pentagon's frantic dollar pinch in the last months of fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Muddled Direction | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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