Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...alert nation would have slept behind the Maginot line for nine months like we did," he asserted. "On that score and many others, the French people were deceived again and again...
...clear quick bugle notes of the "Alert!" cut through the hubbub of the fidgety crowd. Field guns pounded. In the pale blue sky three huge Army bombers droned, floating swiftly over the old town, high above miles of narrow, cobbly, people-packed streets...
...Libyan naval base of Tobruch, where Graziani's main supplies were concentrated, the British claimed their bombers smashed barracks, wharves and massed trucks. British planes cracked at Sálum, others attacked Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers...
Whether this was a continuation of last Spring's Smoker kidnaping and the subsequent festivities which kept deans, proctors, and police on the alert for the better part of the week was not apparent, but up to last night no signs of retaliation had stirred the citizens of Cambridge from their sleep...
...Alert, interested, smiling, sympathetic with all sufferers, the Queen wearing her customary rope of pearls, the King pacing along with his hands behind his back, the royal couple got a warm reception...