Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alert. In his opening sentence, FBI Chief Hoover used language designed to arouse the attention of even the busiest Government official. He began: "As a result of the bureau's investigative operations, information has been obtained that a number of persons employed by the Government of the U.S. have been furnishing data and information to persons outside the Federal Government who are in turn transmitting this information to agents of the Soviet government...
This year, for the first time at an opening of Parliament, Elizabeth wore the Imperial State Crown laden with 3,095 jewels,* as she read the speech written for her by Winston Churchill's ministers. A House of Lords gallery packed with such alert first-nighters as Noel Coward agreed that she did her bit with only the faintest touch of nervousness...
...four months after that, the Australian prowled the jungles of Kenya night & day, picking his way alone through tangled underbrush, catching fitful respite in a sleeping bag from the cold of African nights, alert always for the animal and human enemies lurking in every shadow. Once he drew close enough to Kimathi to exchange messages on a forked stick left standing alone in a clearing, but the Mau Mau leader eluded him before he could draw closer...
...alert Department of Justice lawyer sniffed suspiciously when he heard about Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks's plan to set up 20 or so advisory councils, each representing a particular industry. The lawyer asked the Commerce Department what the councils might recommend. Replied Weeks & Co.: in the field of taxation, the oil-industry council would probably advise continuation of the depletion allowance for oil producers...
...Without undue optimism we can say that this study has been heartening," a member of a faculty committee on the study said. "The report gives an overall impression of an alive, alert, loyal body of students who on the whole are finding outlets for their energies and interests. There appears to be no strong undercurrent of apathy or frustration...