Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought the time would come," said Cohn, "when I'd be at a sincere loss for words." And, in fact, the time had not come yet. He talked on for 15 minutes. Looking out over the Daughters of I Will Return, the Minute Women of the U.S.A., the Alert Council of the Rockaways and all the other earnest faces, Roy Cohn, a Communist-hunter emeritus at 27, said: "I look at the fact above all that I've had the privilege to play a very small part in the most noble cause ever known to mankind . . . I consider...
Cries of outrage swelled into a chorus in the U.S. press, aided by Hollywood's alert pressagents, out to defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
PENNY URANIUM STOCKS are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sharp dealing by some brokers and uranium companies prompted the commission to take three cases to court and alert its watchdogs in Salt Lake City and Denver...
...vastly expanded" radar and microwave warning system, to alert Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Guam and other outposts in the Pacific, as well as the U.S., against a sneak attack by the Communists. "Regardless of the expense," said the governors, "we feel that this must be done so that there will be no future Pearl Harbors...
...have taken the play away from Mr. McCarthy." As a result, said Woltman, McCarthy-has been able to exaggerate and confuse the entire issue of Communism. Said Woltman: "The fact is, there's nothing today like the Red climate in America of ten years ago. The public is alert to the Communist conspiracy . . . The party-liner, who operated openly-and brazenly -in official circles in the 1930s, has disappeared. Communism has lost most of the intellectuals . . . Yet Senator McCarthy continues to use the blunderbuss, firing in all directions at once . . . By his excesses . . . his thumb-in-the-eye tactics...