Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end more than 27,000 of about 34,000 North Koreans had joined in the breakout. U.S. helicopters and spotter planes watched them on the roads, in the villages; U.S. M.P.s recognized a few of them-lean, young, alert, with shorter haircuts than other Koreans-in the back alleys of Pusan. But most were hidden, methodically quartered among the townspeople. Only a handful were recaptured, most of them voluntarily, apparently swayed by U.N. leaflets and broadcasts declaring that they had "made a mistake...
...week's end Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor spoke to his troops by radio. Said he: "An armistice does not mean the war is over . . . We must constantly be on the alert and ready for a resumption of hostilities, in case . . . the enemy breaches the terms of armistice...
...foul-weather landings, the common system includes both radar-directed, ground-controlled approach (GCA) so popular with the military, and the instrument-landing system (ILS) that is preferred by airline pilots. At airports equipped with both systems, planes can make their final approach down the ILS radio beam, while alert ground crews give extra guidance through...
Then, said Dr. Clarke, it was found that the low steroid levels marked the patients who were depressed, apathetic and withdrawn. The near-normals were alert, cooperative and interested in their surroundings. The above-normals were ridden with conflicts and anxiety and often showed such other signs as fast heartbeat, quick changes in blood pressure and sweating of the palms...
...long, over the sun-baked Suez base that sprawls for 90 miles along the canal banks, British spotter planes droned last week, alert for Egyptian concentrations. Big, Sunderland flying boats rumbled in from Malta with 600 commandos to beef up the 80,000 British troops already crammed into Britain's Middle East bastion. All home leaves were canceled; British soldiers took over local water and power plants and set up checkpoints flanked by machine-gun nests, sandbags and barbed wire...