Word: alerte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richmond, Ohio, crowds lined the river banks. A shout went up when smoke was discernible in the distance. On Dam 35 the judges grew prematurely alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
Said President Hines: "The industry is fully alert to the necessity for maintaining cotton in a prominent position in the high-styled field in order to keep this market in advance of the volume market ... I believe that the industry appreciates the results of these special [Institute] efforts . . . and will wish to continue and enlarge the program...
...Alert correspondents soon learned the basic facts: the popular peasant government of energetic Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had successfully suppressed an attempted coup d'etat; 200 persons, most of them artillery officers, had been arrested; suspected regiments were confined to their barracks; strict censorship of the press, abolished by the Maniu government eight months ago, was instantly revived...
Elevated trains stopped to watch. An advertising airplane roared and blinked overhead. A smart police cordon idled around in the outfield like alert mannikins on a playing board of green baize. But in the bottom of the cone of white light at the centre of it all, Fighters Schmeling and Uzcudun did much more butting, grasping and shoving than sparring, smacking, socking...