Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the air controllers' strike drags on like an endless wait in a holding pattern at a busy airport, some people are trying their own hand at guiding planes to a landing. No cause for alarm. They are playing one of two video games that have become popular since the start of the strike. The games: Air Traffic Controller ($11.95) and Flight Path...
...days, almost exactly, a nightmarish experience occurs. They have been thoroughly warned, and the prisoners await the moment with great alarm. They are struck by something called nystagmus, a loss of muscular control due to severe vitamin deficiency. If they look sideways, their eyes begin to gyrate wildly and uncontrollably, first horizontally and then vertically. The prisoners struggle to stare straight forward, even cupping their hands against the sides of their heads, but they cannot help themselves. Francis Hughes, 25, the second striker to die, even constructed cotton gauze blinders around his eyes...
There is nothing muted or polite about Moscow's alarm and impatience with the new Administration. In a series of interviews, Soviet observers have lashed out sharply not just against the Administration as a whole but against individuals in key positions. Says Georgi Arbatov, the U.S.S.R.'s chief America watcher and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee: "The people who have come to power are more ideological than almost any in the past. Many of them hate us blindly. I'm not necessarily talking about the top level, but at the next level there...
...sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least the car may be safe: during the past decade someone installed an antitheft alarm...
...explanations of the Mitterrand administration seem to have had some effect in mollifying Washington's alarm. Just before returning to the U.S. at week's end, Bush told reporters in London that he felt "there wouldn't be the complications some might think" over the composition of the French Cabinet...