Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Washington press corps had no advance dope on the White House's well-kept secret, their editors nevertheless made good use of the hour between the White House "alert" and the actual announcement. Thanks to the odd time, they had a big story that radio couldn't milk dry before their papers hit the streets. They went after it with oldtime frenzy. Slot men, guessing what the news would be, dug out morgue cuts of MacArthur, dummied up screamer heads on alternate possibilities (MACARTHUR FIRED; MACARTHUR REBUKED; MACARTHUR QUITS). Most morning newspapers stopped their presses, replated...
...punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed the thesaurus and found no less than 30 synonyms for the sluggishness which the pills were said to cure...
Meanwhile Smith starts its fourth quarter century. The atmosphere there may not be intellectually exciting, the girls often knit rather then take notes, but it is certainly intellectually alert, perhaps a little less isolation would be desirable, because after all, how far can a handful of Amherst men go around. But at least it makes sure that the cream of America's young ladies are not merely "admitted, on sufferance and made to fit as best they can," as Herbert Davis, Wright's predecessor, suggested women are in many a college
...before a Senate Banking subcommittee looking into the tangled affairs of the RFC. Casey's testimony did not concern the RFC and at times he was a reluctant witness. But pieced together with facts which the subcommittee already knew, his story was further proof that in Washington, an alert man could hear opportunity knock when the average citizen could...
...shots of tightly guarded air bases and quotes from top brass, the film shows the Air Force building its strength and keeping on a day-to-day alert to retaliate against attack on the U.S. Then the movie joins 17 officers and men aboard a B-36, stays with them on a 9,000-mile simulated combat flight on a 39-hour route from Texas to Iceland and back. Target: Detroit...