Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...floor of the House: "The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since 1918." Noting wryly in passing that he had "learned a good deal about the Legion, especially since 1949," Legionnaire Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country's conventional armed forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto...
...member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, he was present when ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, sometime high State Department official, had been a Communist spy during the 1930s. Hiss's denials convinced the other committee members-but his legalistic evasions caught the alert ear of law-trained Richard Nixon. Nixon doggedly pursued the investigation as virtually a one-man committee. Many an ardent Nixon admirer firmly believes that the Democratic liberals' real hatred of Nixon stems not from his insinuating style of debate but from the fact that the Hiss case shattered so many...
...bleak future in a permanent "armsathon," and that no effort to call a halt is too great or too soon. The United States, if she is to contribute her share to diminishing the conflict, must unencumber her defense structure of excessive business interests; she must achieve an alert flexibility in disarmament talks and foreign policy...
Colorado. Republican Gordon Allott, the incumbent, walks the sidewalks with his right hand at the alert for every passerby. His Democratic opponent, chunky Lieutenant Governor Robert Knous, son of a former Governor and federal judge, is campaigning strenuously on a far-out liberal platform. Allott holds a breathless lead, but the race is wide open, could be decided by the Nixon-Kennedy results...
...spending about $476 million more, $150 million of it in fiscal 1961 (ending next June 30). The money will be distributed among a variety of projects: developing the B70 super-bomber, modernizing Army equipment, building more Polaris submarines and missiles, increasing airlift capability, expanding the Strategic Air Command airborne alert, and speeding up development of the spy-satellite Samos. They are all expensive items, and the extra money will not go far among them...