Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crusaders had the passing attack, which went form the fine-throwing left halfback Gene schiller to six feet four inch end Jack Carroll. They had power though the middle with a pair of driving fullbacks-Tom Murphy and Gerry O'Leary. They had a big alert line. And they had the ability to spot the weakness in the Dartmouth line, a weakness which started near left tackle and stretched across to right tackle. They scored four times and there seemed little doubt among the more non-partisan spectators that if needed, they could have added a couple more...
...their reactions, the children were bright and alert, and they had separate nervous systems. Their circulatory systems also seemed separate, and each girl had her own genitourinary tract. But their lower intestines were connected, and X rays showed that the bone structure of their lower spines and the tough dural membrane that covers the spinal cord were joined...
...circus in Stockholm, an alert photographer got a picture of childish glee when the royal kids of Sweden-Crown Prince Carl Gustaf and Princess Christina-and a little girl friend watched the clowns...
...topple him from power, the Communists ordered East German toughs and Red agents to slip across the border and sabotage the elections. But alert police and hastily mobilized West German youth organizations thwarted them: they were picked up by the thousands and jailed or bundled back across the border. To help him win, the U.S. Secretary of State made a blunt appeal for an Adenauer victory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and unwittingly gave Konrad Adenauer's most threatening opponents, the Social Democrats, an issue they sorely wanted. It embarrassed Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition somewhat, but it came providentially...
...canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down to 10 ft. above the vicious whitecaps. Sleet comes, ice edges the wings. For 1,000 miles...