Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warn, though, that citizens in the country might take the charges more seriously than a skeptical and alert university community...
...Washington, the U.S. Public Health Service reported signs that the polio season has reached its peak and may be tapering off. Total cases so far this polio season: a "normal" 12,221. ¶ The Pentagon sent out a nationwide malaria alert to state health officers. More than 800 soldiers returning from Korea have been found to have active malaria parasites in their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled...
...Suicide Route." Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, who proposed a $250 million slash in economic aid for Western Europe, voiced one side of the argument: "We lift our voices in magnificent cliches about the danger from outside. Are we alert to the fact that America can die from suicide within? The suicide route is the fiscal route." Majority Leader McFarland voiced the other side: "Is it cheaper to arm European boys, or put all of our young manhood in uniform? The world is in a dangerous situation and we must see to it that our allies are strong economically...
...from sheer rage. I am just the channel through which the in dignation of our members and, I might say, our community flows." The club, she admitted, had not asked for medical opinion; the purpose of the announcement at this time was simply to start people thinking and alert the legislature as to what the club expected of it at the next session...
Author Bromfield was not always so alert at spotting the termites in the American grain. Interviewed at a homecoming in 1933, he cried: "What do I like about America? Everything! ... We have a Pollyanna's Paradise ... I went to a movie, walked through the five-&-ten, ate peanuts and felt at home again...