Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, an alert police superintendent grappled with the stranger, a wiry man in a bright green shirt and red shorts. The superintendent wrenched a rusty, four-inch clasp knife out of his hand, threw him to the ground and whisked him off to the police station before the angry crowd could get at him. Nehru, cool as ice, barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would...
...famous 1926 riot in the Abbey Theater. The volatile Irish theatergoers were looking forward to a notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
...murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real...
...Alert merchandisers are selling the U.S. books of the month, shows of the month, even fruit of the month. Latest item: disease of the month. Thought up by Boston Internist Mark Aisner, the new service offers a series of monthly booklets on the symptoms and care of interesting diseases (February selection: Essential Hypertension). The Disease-a-Month pamphlets are written by experts, distributed by Chicago's Year Book Publishers, Inc., and come with a handy orange-colored binder. They are designed for doctors, but subscribers (10,000 to date) presumably include a few lay hypochondriacs. Price per year...
...soon learned that the Germans had succeeded in capturing Allied agents' radio sets and cutting them into the British network, but he was never able to warn London. After the invasion he was packed off to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Starr admits that because he never managed to alert his superiors, he failed to win his double game; his bosses hint that because he talked to the Germans he lost it. But the disconcerting fact is that Starr offers at least partial British corroboration of a recent German assertion that by 1943 hundreds of Allied drops were intercepted...