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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard line, built around a superlative guard, Bill Meigs, has not been outplayed all year, despite the three defeats. With Meigs, who plays aggressive alert football both ways, are Captain Tim Anderson, tackles John Maher, Orville Tice and Bill Frate, and centers Dave Bodiker and Art Painter. Last year the Crimson line outplayed Princeton, this year no one expects any less. Considering the fine quality of the Tiger line play, tomorrow's game is likely to be decided on top of and around the line of play, tomorrow's game is likely to be decided on top of and around...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Improving Varsity Meets Favored Tigers Today | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

Britain's anti-American NEW STATES MAN AND NATION, which is ever alert for alternatives to Anglo-American unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL CRIME OF THE AMERICANS | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Defending his role in the court-packing plan (in a book published just before Jackson himself was named an Associate Justice), he pleaded eloquently for new blood in the court. There are, said he, "certain sustained and procedural pressures toward conservatism which only the most alert Justices will sense and only the most hardy will overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: A Hard Man to Pigeonhole | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...post-revolution truce. "They ran like a bunch of rats," Peurifoy said, testifying in Washington last week before the House Subcommittee on Communist Aggression in Latin America, but that only scattered them to various Latin American countries where they "represent a great danger, and I hope those governments are alert to the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Cops in Asylum | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Against Duke, Dawson had little opportunity to choose. Alert Blue Devil defenders covered his targets. But while Duke was busy guarding the air lanes, Fullback Bill Murakowski had room to score on the ground. Just having The Arm cocked, ready to throw, kept Duke's linebackers honest-and kept Purdue in the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Arm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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