Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even a single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal...
Think! is a lusty, swinging tune; Doodletown Fifers mixes pixy tootlings with brassy blasts. Some of it may sound contrived, but the overall effect is alert, bright...
...young, alert field officers returned from the Israeli war, having suffered a more humiliating defeat than any country in the 20th century. For their defeat they blamed the inept, lazy officers who ran the War Ministry and also Farouk, for he meddled in the army, promoting the inept officers, including the worst of all, General Mohammed Haidar Pasha, the commander in chief...
...carefully as they had planned their seminars and pinched their pennies, they picked their representatives. The chosen ten belonged to ten. different faiths, traced their backgrounds to eight different countries, included two students who are part Negro, two who are part American Indian. At the last minute, alert Episcopalians collected another $1,700 so that they, too, could have a representative...
...suffer a burned and broken foot in an airplane accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...