Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything. Then he took part in a couple of school plays, and to his astonishment found himself applauded. His career was set, in a way that recalls H. L. Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth who generally gets stagestruck. "Is he," Mencken asked, "the alert, ingenious, ambitious young fellow? Is he ... the diligent reader, the hard student, the eager inquirer? No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clotheshorse, the nimble squire of dames. He seeks in the world, not a chance to test his mettle by hard and useful...
...Bedford whaler, the John Howland, spotted the five starving Japanese who had given up all hope after nearly seven months. Having taken the castaways aboard, Captain William H. Whitfield went right on chasing whales. To Manjiro, whose usual catch was bass, whaling was a mighty experience. Quick, curious and alert, the young lad picked up English rapidly, learned the whaler's tasks and pitched in with a will. Captain Whitfield, a widower, took such a fancy to him that he brought him home (Fairhaven, Mass.), changed his name to John Mung, put him in school and took...
According to Edmund M. Burke, Director of Civil Defense for Cambridge, it will just be "Operation Alert for 1956." This is a test exercise that will send public officials all over the state scurrying for cover, but which needn't bother Summer School students...
Spoiled food was a result of urbanization. In the 19th century U.S. farms and small towns, every housewife was an alert guardian of the freshness of the food she fed her family. But the growth of U.S. cities meant packing food and shipping it unrefrigerated for long distances...
...staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...