Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whipple reported that the observatory will notify all Moon watch teams and the Armed Forces to be on the alert over the weekend, even during hours when the rocket might not be visible...
WASHINGTON--A team of specialists confirmed last night that President Eisenhower has suffered a blockage of a blood vessel leading to the brain--a condition generally called a mild stroke. Although they reported that Ike is "alert" and "in good spirits," doctors have recommended several weeks of rest and the State Department has said "it is to be assumed" that he will not attend the NATO summit conference in Paris next month...
...Planes. The new 15-minute alert, in force at all SAC bases, is based on Air Force estimates that 15 minutes is all the warning the U.S.-or bases overseas-would be likely to get before a missile strike. It requires a proficiency and efficiency that airmen would have thought fantastic only two years ago. Yet next year, through an ingenious system of shifting and resting planes and crews, SAC intends to have two-thirds of its planes on a constant 15-minute alert. Meanwhile, the vanguard of General O. P. ("Opie") Weyland's Tactical Air Command lighter...
Planning translates itself into hardware. This week the first B-52E, an improved version of the B-52, will go to work for SAC; soon will come the B-526, designed to give the alert force 30% more range. The Air Force has contracted for 30 test supersonic delta-wing B58 bombers for phasing in beside the medium B-473. Already SAC has its first operational intercontinental guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than...
Once this occurred, warning would be flashed southward within seconds through the system to the Alaskan Air Command in Anchorage or Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, R.C.A.F. headquarters at St. Hubert near Montreal and NORAD at Colorado Springs. From there, over "hot line" red telephones, the alert would be relayed to SAC headquarters in Omaha and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for immediate consultation with President Eisenhower, whose decision to give SAC's bombers the "go ahead" could be made and dispatched within five min utes from the time the warning came from the DEW line...