Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will soon reach a point in the atomic race with Russia when, unless we become considerably more alert than we are, the supremacy in air-atomic power which to date has been ours will shift from us to Russia. We should assume for the purpose of our national policies and planning that the Russians will reach this point during the year 1956. We need new national policies for what I would call Phase II of the Atomic Age-the time when the Russians will have enough fission and hydrogen bombs, and the planes and missiles to make a sneak attack...
Records of the class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...
...streets, and the press was full of violent polemics and screaming headlines. My plans for a slow approach to the new work were promptly disrupted by the Vargas story. By Monday, Aug. 23, it looked as if things had reached a climax. That night we stayed on the alert until we had news that Vargas had resigned and the crisis was over. I went to bed. Four hours later, I was awakened with the news that the President had shot himself...
Last week, commenting on the Red bombardment of Quemoy, Assistant Defense Secretary Fred Seaton said: "We are alert to our responsibilities in the area, and certain of our units [from the Seventh Fleet...
...event of an air-raid "alert," the President and his staff duck into an underground shelter right on the White House grounds...