Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flair for drama could have asked for no more effective tableau. There at stage center, its polished brass numerals gleaming in the lamplight of London's Downing Street, was the famed, ebon-black door marked "10." Choking the narrow street but held back to a respectful distance by alert bobbies were crowds of Londoners whose suspenseful interest in the drama was drawn taut by the lack of printed news caused by a newspaper strike (see PRESS). At 8:30 a spatter of rain caught the crowd's attention, for a moment, and just then, a bobby stepped...
...Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy territory, pushed on to see what the cops would do. They did nothing...
know what he was doing at Yalta? Said Mclntire unequivocally: "[He] was completely responsible for his acts ... He was physically tired but as mentally alert as I had ever seen...
...chess game, De Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button...
...that they could be returned in 15 minutes, and 3) they were not to be taken apart. Thus the books could not be sent to the Times's New York office, but had to be copied in Washington. Reston had already phoned Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge to alert him that he might be getting the report, and the Times had decided to publish it, since "no question of national security" was involved. With the two volumes in hand, Reston set his Washington bureau to work transmitting the record to New York. Said he: "It was like being given...