Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CONGRATULATIONS," the cable read, "CAN HARDLY WAIT TO MEET WHAT WE ARE SURE MUST BE THREE AND HALF KILOS DYNAMITE." Frank Kirton, 43, beamed as he read it; his wife had just given birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner- a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguay-mighty handy for smuggling dynamite...
...lost minute of play, Harvard, clinging to a one-point lead, twice waived the free throw option, amid protests from Cornell coach Roy Greene, to bring the ball in from out of bounds. Both times the Big Red defense was too alert and with ten seconds left to play the Ithacans' lanky center, John Werner, flipped in a layup...
...order. Poker-faced patrolmen stood at 50-foot intervals at both sides of the street. They were quiet and alert and expectant. The firemen's band was playing Sousa. Strollers and loiterers, all stone-eyed and half-interested, gathered in front of the Copley Plaza and near the reviewing stand across the street. Motorcycles carrying dispatches buzzed in and departed. Big, black, shiny cars coasted into the Square and discharged more tall and short red-faced men in hombergs and Chesterfields...
...overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair and asked Mr. Hoover to sit on the books. He had to sit erect and alert, to keep from falling off the books...