Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tito was preparing for outright annexation of Zone B, the southern half of the territory, which has been in Yugoslav control since World War II. From Rome went orders to the army and navy: two to three divisions of Italian troops along the Yugoslav border were put on the alert, and a cruiser and two torpedo boats were dispatched to Venice, just across the Adriatic from Trieste...
...heavy silence, thousands of East Berliners last week shuffled through their city's Pergamon Museum, on Museum Island. On view, guarded by alert People's Police, were 95 paintings, drawings, and woodcuts by modern and "prerevolutionary" Russian artists, the first big exhibit of Russian art to travel outside the U.S.S.R. since...
...from New Mexico to Arizona three years ago. The National Park Service, backed by a federal law barring the disturbance of Indian relics, asked El Paso's President Paul Kayser, 65, to let archaeologists inspect the right-of-way before the bulldozers chewed up any valuable finds. Kayser, alert to a chance for some unusual public-relations, agreed to more than that. He promised that El Paso would pay all the costs and underwrite a follow-up study to boot...
...moving into a new world," says Burnet, who did much to open a new world of virus research (TIME, Dec. 8), "and we must be always alert to look beyond the immediate effect of some new procedure to see what the logical outcome of its large-scale use will be. Antibacterial drugs, like measures to prevent the spread of infection or immunization procedures, are potent weapons, but to the biologist they are merely new factors . . . [among] which the microorganisms of infection must struggle to survive. We must never underestimate the potentialities of our enemies...
Deadly Faith. Apprehensive critics point out that Zworykin may be increasing the very hazard that he is trying to diminish. Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike become hypnotized because the beautiful highway demands too little from them to keep them alert. If the highway itself does their driving for them, they may fall even deeper into drivers' coma. The cars will speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing...