Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, General James A. Van Fleet told his troops: "Everyone is hopeful that the conferences will come to a successful and honorable end so that peace may be restored. No one is more conscious of peace than the soldier. However, every man must be alert at all times. We must not and will not permit this great United Nations army to become a victim of a Communist ambush...
Died. Antonin Besse, 71, French merchant prince who made a fortune bringing the riches of the Middle East (skins, coffee, frankincense, myrrh) to Europe; of lung congestion; in Elgin, Scotland. He emerged from self-chosen anonymity 'in 1949, when an alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...
...house. He had trouble finding words for things, and described the white-clad nurses as "sugar-iced people." He still thought he was being persecuted, and for a time he was hard to handle. But his wounds healed and he soon settled down. After three months, the major was alert and rational again, and reading the daily papers. He denied that he had ever suffered from a suicidal mania and refused to believe that he had shot himself...
...week's end, the matter had developed into an international incident; Pakistan was demanding an official apology. But New Rochelle's cops were standing pat. "I tried to explain," said Lieut. Lawrence Ruhl patiently, "that when gypsies turn up in the city, our men are on the alert for mischief...
These six steps have at last provided most of the necessary machinery to match similar Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale programs. Yet they represent no guarantee of successfully "balancing the College" without alert, aggressive alumni to fill committee ranks...