Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration, alert to the appeal of the Reed move and fearful over the outcome, offered a compromise...
Cowboy Cinemactor Gene Autry galloped into Houston recently to whoop up the city's annual livestock show and rodeo. One day between performances, ol' Gene, ever alert to evil deeds on the screen, dozed off in his dressing room. While he snored, two small boys sneaked in, played with his pistols, tramped around in his fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled...
...This young man in a hurry stated again and again that the American people simply couldn't trust Democrats to be loyal or "alert"-and thereby by implication he labeled the whole party as a party of treason . . . Nixon is a hard, dirty infighter not overly concerned with campaign ethics . . . DAVID S. BURGESS Atlanta...
...materials moved north by air last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the Distant Early Warning line (DEW). When the system is finished in about two years, its radar and other detection devices will keep around-the-clock alert from the Yukon to Greenland against intruding Soviet aircraft...
Sure that "hundreds of terrorists were in Washington City," he ordered all firemen on the alert against possible mass arson. Without bothering about legal authority, he ordered the arrest of "every human being" employed at Ford's Theatre...