Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Present official thinking--assuming the Western powers won't get a satisfactory arrangement with Egypt for operation of the canal--is that the United States should simply advise ship operators that if their vessels must use the waterway the operators should be alert to the requirements of U.S. Treasury regulations specifying that canal tolls be paid to Egypt only under protest...
...Moores imported a great Scottish stallion, Ophelius, as a stud. Pippin would have nothing to do with the old horse. (Later breeding with an American stud produced one foal, but it was never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious case of colic. Reluctantly, the Moores made the final decision to put her down...
...impact of the tragedy was diverted by the comedy that followed. In Six Strings Cut, author Wally Lawrence shows skill and a lighthearted touch, the delightfully amusing production owes much to Thomas Teal's alert direction; his comic inventiveness shows great promise. Lee Jeffries and Jim Stinson worked wonderfully together as Sally and Herby, two would-be-night-club performers competing for an audition in a wouldbe nightclub. Her flouncy ingenuousness and accessibility, and his energy and pleasant unscrupulousness created brilliant little scenes. The production as a whole displayed surprising polish and timing...
...line at the wingding opening of Philadelphia's brand-new $15 million Sheraton Hotel. Suddenly Perle froze, hand outstretched. Facing her: Perle's arch-rival in the hostessing game, elegantly gowned and bejeweled Gwen Cafritz. Perle wheeled, looked wildly around for an escape route just as an alert photographer recorded this historic moment of truth (see cut) for posterity. Gwen nervously shifted her white mink stole, swung her evening bag against an onlooker. The bag flew open and coins, handkerchief and vanity poured to the floor. "Isn't this what would happen when I come...
Cost of Laving. In Seoul, public bathhouse proprietors went on strike for higher prices, explained that over-alert cops had cut off their main source of cheap fuel: coal swiped from the Korean National Railways...