Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very first night, he learned one thing: Boy Scouts seldom look like the idealized picture of Boy Scouts. "I had imagined that they would have eager, alert, likable faces-even noble or cute ones, similar to those I had seen in newspaper photos of Boy Scouts handing placards to the mayor or demonstrating bandages in City Park. Such types appeared to be in very short supply in this troop." Giggling and jiggling among themselves, they scarcely listened to his inaugural address ("Look at Big Shot," whispered one). Nor did they take his attempts at umpiring any more seriously ("That...
...Always alert to our readers' sensibilities, we have restricted this year's installment of the parietal crusade to two gentle editorials. The Student Council has muffied its annual plea as well. It appears now, ominously enough, that this orgy of restraint has had a generally soporific effect on the Administrative Board, that it has lulled the Senior Tutors and Deans into the belief that a mere shuffling of hours is enough to scotch the annual uproar once and for all. What better proof is there than the restrictive proposal which issued forth last Monday from University Hall...
Both men would have had even less cause for comment had two students succeeded that morning in placing white porcelain bedpans underneath the figures. An alert University policeman apprehended the students while they were trying to slip the objects under the canvas coverings...
Perhaps this document of the Age of Tolerance found its ultimate expression in the contribution of Sarah Lawrence College's alert young President Harold Taylor. Said he: "I believe in people, in sheer, unadulterated humanity . . . The most important thing in life is the way it is lived, and there is no such thing as an abstract happiness, an abstract goodness or morality, or an abstract anything, except in terms of the person . . . I believe we must, each of us, make a philosophy out of believing in nothing...
Bulger, best set shot on last year's freshman team, sank several long shots and played an alert floor game. The kind of player who doesn't make mistakes, and capitalizes on those of opponents, Bulger should be steadying influence on a team that shows a tendency to be over-flashy. Sachs was about the only one who repeatedly tried to drive through the middle. Tall and fast, he draws fouls, then sinks them--converting nine out of ten Saturday...