Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily to the right in recent years. But despite this right turn, some pockets of militant Communism still remain in the movement...
...Mobile forces, deployed around the world on 24-hr, alert, are backed up by the world's most modern manned bombers; atomic weapons have increased the striking power of U.S. military forces a thousandfold...
Nationalist Chinese forces, fearful of an impending attack on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, promptly went onto the alert; in Washington the Department of State protested that Peking was "raising the specter of war." And in the process, Khrushchev's longstanding campaign to persuade the world that the Communist nations are just one big nest of peace lovers suffered a sharp setback...
...understand me." Even in Special Services, the average draftee did not dig his insistence on clean fingernails. Things were better overseas. Crossing to Guadalcanal on an Army troop transport, he took on a Caine-type commander who kept the soldiers on a near-starvation diet. One day during an alert, Paar got into a lifeboat and announced: "I've been asked to make an announcement that there was a Japanese submarine in the vicinity, but unfortunately the Navy gun crews have driven it off. I say unfortunately because the Japanese submarine was trying to bring us food." Recalls Paar...
...more businessmen come alert to the promising future of underdeveloped countries, the guaranty program can do much to help those nations get the capital they need and to protect the investors who are helping to substitute private investment for public aid. But if it is to be a real shield for forward movement, the program needs a greater awareness of its function by both U.S. businessmen and the members of Congress...