Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off-and-on President and strongman of Cuba. But even as he pep-talked loyal troops at Camp Columbia, outside Havana. Batista warily shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising. Next morning the revolt came, in the sugar port of Cienfuegos (pop. 99.000), Cuba's seventh city...
...first day of registration for the public schools of Nashville, Tenn., and the city (pop. 185,000) had 90 policemen on special alert to quell any trouble that might break out. At some schools, it seemed at times as if the cops might be needed. Groups of white adults and teenagers wearing "Keep Our White Schools White" buttons passed out racist handbills, and a few people noisily heckled grey-haired School Superintendent William Bass as he toured possible trouble spots ("Why do you let niggers come to our white schools?") But beyond that, 13 little Negroes were allowed, more...
...shabby, bird-faced man stood silently before Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo in Brooklyn's U.S. District Court as he was arraigned, occasionally rubbed the handcuffs on his wrists, momentarily allowed his faded blue eyes to show a flash of animation as his gaze darted about the courtroom. Alert U.S. deputy marshals hovered close by, and outside the courtroom shirtsleeved FBI men patrolled the corridors. The U.S. had a valuable catch to protect: the prisoner at the bar was Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55. Moscow-born colonel of Soviet intelligence, and possibly the most important Soviet spy ever caught...
...best to get Loew's back on the track. He planned to release 36 "worthy" pictures in 1957-58 v. only 18 in 1956, and made a succession of deals with Hollywood's independent producers to put M-G-M on a competitive par with its more alert rivals. But for Tomlinson and Meyer it was evidently a case of too little too late; Loew's estimates that its profits for the third quarter of fiscal 1957 will total exactly 1?. At a board meeting a fortnight ago, charged Vogel, the recommendations of an independent management survey...
Last week on his new show called The Album of Paco Malgesto, alert engineers cut off the sound just as Paco began to tell in detail why the police used to raid Mexico City burlesque shows, turned it back five minutes later after Paco had moved on to more discreet matters...