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Word: alertly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faster than any commission ; the Arbenz regime could be shattered - or it could emerge victorious and cockier than ever. Jacobo Arbenz, stubborn as ever, clapped on a tougher form of martial law, tightened up on blackouts, authorized his cops to shoot motorists caught with headlights on during a night alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Battle of the Backyard | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...growing conformity around the country or on the attempt of worried legislators to fight indoctrination without under-standing 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alabama's School Book Act Proves Ludicrous | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

Citation: "Now commanding the forces of the U.S. and of the United Nations in a crucial area of strategic concern in the free world's effort to halt the spread of Communism, keeper of the alert watchfulness and bearer of the prayerful hopes of free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Neutralism v. Isolationism. In France, where many newspapers are helped by hidden government or party subsidies and many are corrupt, L'Express is a postwar journalistic oddity. Confident, alert Editor Servan-Schreiber got the weekly off to a fast start a year ago by printing in its second issue a parliamentary report on Indo-China that the shaky government had asked other papers not to print. L'Express grew steadily, now runs some of the leading writers in France. Editor Servan-Schreiber is a friendly critic of U.S. foreign policy, bridles at being called a "neutralist," and says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man with a Mission | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...unfortunate that it takes a constitutional crisis to alert conservatives to a moral issue. Conservative morality, economy-minded as it is, is not so much wrong as it is porous and shallow. Merit is figured in terms of loss or gain. So, mink coats, a legitimate political issue, is raised as a moral issue, an oblique one when compared to a basic moral issue such as the violation of a Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR YEARS OF UNREASON, | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

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