Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written another one of his own, he seems to be creating a sensation among his fellow critics. Said the New York Times: "Cards of Identity may be remembered and read for some time to come." The London Sunday Times called it "one of the three or four most mercurially alert, unnervingly funny books to have appeared in the 20th century." Mused Novelist J. B. Priestley: "I should like to know what Mr. Dennis looks like. I do not want to imagine he has been sitting opposite me in a bus. When I meet that eye of his, I want...
...prospects for the immediate future. The patient, said Boston Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, is progressing satisfactorily. He looks and feels well; his temperature, pulse (low 70s) and blood pressure (132 over 80) are normal, and his circulation is excellent. His spirits and morale are good, his mind alert. In order to keep him "from bubbling over and to protect his heart from his overactive brain," he is given a small dose of sedatives when he awakens each morning. No complications have appeared, and they are now unlikely-but not impossible...
...four days, the use of narcotics was dropped (although Ike continued to receive anticoagulants, as a precaution against blood clots, and Seconal, a sedative to help him rest). He was gradually "weaned" from the oxygen tent. The periods of dozing slacked off, and the President began to take an alert interest in the outside world. When Press Secretary James Hagerty popped in for a brief visit, Ike asked him how the affairs of the nation were going. "Just fine, Mr. President," said Hagerty. "Everything is fine." Items on the presidential chart...
...Burgess, though he preferred the company of the able to the artistic, also moved on the edge of the same world. He was of a very different physique, tall-medium in height, with blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...
...Alert City. New York City, 400 miles to the north, lay smack in Zone's path...