Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away. There were passages when his beat was robust as of old. There were other times when he almost stopped conducting, seeming to stand aside, listening to the music. Then the incredible happened: during the Bacchanal from Tannhäuser, the superb orchestra actually became confused. Alert NBC engineers cut the broadcast off the air with an announcement about "operational difficulties." Incongruously, a few bars of Brahms' First Symphony drifted over the air, as a fill-in recording was played in the studio...
...Newport, Ky. (pop. 31,044), just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, gambling houses and brothels have often caused trouble, so newsmen are ever on the alert for stories there. One night last summer, the Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
...Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope for relief from Communist bondage, Adenauer beamed a special message: "Be alert, be hard, be patient. Today we in the Federal Republic are developing our economic and political powers for the future benefit of all Germany...
...Rough, alert defense work by Mrkonich and Jeff Coolidge managed to stop most of these attacks until the final two minutes of the period. Then it took seven consecutive, often brilliant, saves by Flynn to prevent the Elis from gaining a first-place tie with the league-leading Crimson sextet. Flynn totalled 42 saves...
Navy clung to its slim lead in the second half despite an alert Crimson defense that successfully bottled up Lange and Clune. Guards Doral Sandlin and Larry Wigle7 took up the slack for the visitors with a combination of set shots and free throws...