Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilbert has said he is working to alert stockholders to their role in the management of large business organizations and to improve relations between directors and small investors...
...four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...
...that this makes Dickens a social revolutionary. Lenin, for one, did not agree and once stomped out of a dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth, because he could not stomach Dickens' "middleclass sentimentality." It is probably true to say, as other critics have, that Dickens had an alert social conscience; he knew what he was against, but he never knew quite what he was for-except the underdog...
...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...
Apparently the raiders expected the base to be off guard as a result of New Year's Eve merrymaking and hoped to make a quick haul of arms and ammunition. But the sentries were on the alert, and the raiders soon found themselves caught in a one-sided fire fight. Outgunned, they fled into the night. Death toll, according to the government: 33 attackers, 7 defenders...