Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when one rouses me, I lie quietly there in bed and say a little prayer. First, to thank God that some alert American youngster is up there in that jet watching over me. Second, I ask that the plane and the boy get safely back. After that, with no trouble at all, I turn over and go right back to sleep...
News from the Instruments. The system had a workout last spring, during the tests of U.S. hydrogen bombs. Dr. Miyake had no advance notice except that traffic in certain sea areas had been restricted, but he kept alert. Early in March he learned that a colleague in Kyoto had observed abnormal variations in atmospheric pressure on March 1, so he collected the records of the government's 13 meteorological stations. Instead of the wavy lines of normal pressure changes, the charts showed jagged variations on March 1, March 27, April 26, and May 5. The first and last were...
...South Bend, Ind., a butterfingered University of Texas eleven fumbled away its best chances and helped an alert Notre Dame team win its first game of the year, 21-0 for its young (26) new coach, Terry Brennan...
...growing conformity around the country or on the attempt of worried legislators to fight indoctrination without understanding basic issues, it remains that the Alabama legislature did pass Act 888, and it remained on the books almost a year. There can be no sharper warning for alert citizenship than this...
...territory. It is this silent "war," this ceaseless search for information, that must be inevitably a part of the "cold war." We have no confidence in the Soviet Government, yet we know that the Soviet Government has the capabilities of devastating destruction against the United States unless we are alert...