Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positions on the hill. Suddenly the officer fell flat on his face. The British and West Germans guffawed. The Russian glared, stood up and fell again as though it had all been a planned maneuver. The Westerners cheered. All that night the men on both sides remained at the alert for an overt move. It never came. Next day the Life Guards decided the Russians would not invade and rolled back to their barracks. The German frontier guards followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home. On the Soviet side the Vopos resumed their ceaseless patrols...
...Trap. "I have never seen a people look better or more carefree," the Prime Minister told the British Press Association luncheon in London. "What I wonder is whether they have realized the treacherous trap door on which it all stands. It is an alert that I am sounding; yet it is more than an alert-it is an alarm. We have never been beaten yet, and now we fight not for vainglory or pomp but for our survival...
Many televiewers wince, talk back or leave the room during TV commercials. But not earnest, 41-year-old Dick Stark. He sits on the edge of his chair, wide-eyed and alert to every move and inflection of the TV salesman. His interest is professional and his appraisal is that of a connoisseur. For when he is not listening to commercials, Dick Stark is delivering them. He sells Chesterfield cigarettes on TV's Perry Como Show and Gangbusters, Amm-i-dent toothpaste on Danger, Camay soap on radio's Pepper Young's Family. "Television has been good...
Since flying saucers are rare, they require unusual conditions to produce them. Menzel hopes that his rational explanation will encourage good observers to be on the alert for them...
...many flying saucers. There may even be some in the Bible: the "wheels" seen in the air by the Prophet Ezekiel.* Saucers have been seen more often of late, he thinks, because the U.S. Southwest, where atmospheric conditions are most favorable, has only recently been occupied by a large, alert population. The men who man its air bases, rocket ranges and laboratories are just the sort of observers that would notice flying saucers...