Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel went under its first country-wide blackout since the armistice of eight years ago, but there was no air raid alert. An Israeli spokesman said that three Russian-built Egyptian jets were downed, while the Egyptians claimed seven Israeli aircraft...
...regime backed up its pleas by cancelling army leaves and putting 120,000 army troops on emergency alert to crush any anti-Soviet uprising...
...archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...
...July, 1947, he clicked his heels and handed over to the warders his diamond-studded grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep fit, read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership, and lawyers sought means to free him. The last of these efforts failed in 1955 when the Allied authorities ignored a plea that Dönitz' Nurnberg imprisonment...
Both United Air Lines and American Airlines were negotiating last week with Collins to equip their entire fleets with the alarms, at a cost of about $6,000 to $8,000 each. Within two years Collins plans to start installing the device, which will automatically alert the pilot when another aircraft comes within two miles, show him the position of the intruding plane through a system of lights. By 1959 Collins expects to have an improved model that will show the pilot which way to maneuver in order to avert a collision, may even do the whole job automatically...