Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something. The guide, visibly excited, told us that the authorities had ordered a "scramble" for the Rotarians and if we hurried we could watch too. We hurried over beside one of the Sabre-jets and waited as the guide explained that all pilots at the field were on constant alert and could be readied for action in five minutes if an alert were sounded...
...people have had a lot of trouble with exams lately, but apparently none more so than the Harvard basketball team. Playing the day after exam period ended, the Crimson quintet never seemed able to break out of an intellectual fog, and lost, 69 to 51, to an alert Springfield team Saturday in the Blockhouse...
...caretakers of this column have attempted to right wrongs, expose malfeasance, suggest reforms, edify their readers, and write an editorial for every paper. They have succeeded in their last aim to the utmost degree, often at the expense of gross distortion of the other aims. But, as the alert reader may have noticed, certain outside individuals and groups have been constantly at work, often unwillingly, always unwittingly, to provide continuity in the editorial page. It is to those individuals and groups that out thanks must go in the last editorial of this term...
...Indo-China, but it boasts one of the dirtiest guerrilla wars onstage today. For close to four years, a handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...
...years of specializing in nose & throat troubles, Philadelphia's Dr. Matthew S. Ersner had seen only one previous case. If it had not been for an alert doctor who spotted the trouble when she was born, Andrea Sinai's chances of surviving would have been slim-she might have choked on her first bottle. As it was, she had to be fed with a medicine dropper. Often she choked and started to turn blue. Her mother hardly ever knew a good night's sleep; she kept waking to hear the reassurance of the child's raucous...