Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hong Kong is a battleground of Communists and anti-Communists who maneuver and plot and occasionally murder each other under the eye of a government that is alert to it all but prefers to pretend that none of it goes on. Hong Kong is the world's main door to Communist China and the only ready haven from it, and partly for this reason, it is a colony where political rights hardly exist. It is ruled by a British governor with powers that to all effects are absolute, and a vast majority of its inhabitants are quite happy...
...gates would be justified. But instead, they are clean, well-lighted places, which are quite safe at night. The University police contend that closed gates deter thieves from raiding the nearby entries of Wigglesworth by restricting their routes of escape. In the long run to the Holyoke Street, exit, alert proctors would have time to make the tackle. Yet with Lamont open until midnight, homeward-bound students would keep the archway patrolled, forcing burglars to postpone their raids until later...
What does one give a bishop for Christmas? Or a Presbyterian seminarian? Or a nun? The advertising pages of denominational publications are full of suggestions. In this world of black and white, too, eyes are peeled for bargains ("Close-Out-BLACK SUITS-Only 52 Available"), and alert to style ("Nuns' Stylish Handbags-Outside Zipper Pocket...
...Crimson goals were scored while the O'Malley-Cleary-Guttu line was on the ice, and except for Flynn's often brilliant goal-tending, the alert play-making of this trio was the highlight of the game...
...those who want an explanation for the defeat, an exact one will be elusive. Perhaps the Terriers, forechecking and backchecking all night with surprising abandon, were far better conditioned than the Crimson. Perhaps the varsity's inability to get in position for accurate shots at the goal, or the alert goaltending of B.U.'s Ralph Vite, was the deciding factor...