Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, whose onetime president, Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, is his father-in-law. Last year he visited the U. S. S. R., prepared an extensive report on Russian debts to the U. S. as they figure in the recognition issue. Alert, aggressive, sharp-nosed Minister MacMurray, say his friends, could never have been induced by the President to take the obscure and unimportant post at Riga except as a stepping stone to Moscow 530 mi. eastward...
...Cuba's favorite dishes is ajiaco criollo, a peppery hash of vegetables, jerked beef and bananas. Alert Correspondent Tom Pettey of the New York Herald...
...Such disasters have been inflicted before by alert, aggressive military nations upon easy going, indifferent pacifist nations whose government was neglectful, short-sighted and incompetent...
...created an atmospheric trough down which whistled a dry northeast storm right across the path of the oncoming hurricane. The northeaster smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes, Del. Stanley H. Johnson, Denver juvenile court judge, with his wife, daughter and two seamen, was rescued from...
...ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played on. A foul was called and the West...