Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educated thinkers threaten the government with their novel ideas, the uneducated peasants alarm it with their abiding devotion to superstition. Last spring the official press reported a chilling revival of gruesome rural rituals. Fathers were burning their families to death in the belief that they would thus earn a short cut to heaven; charlatans were posing as "emperors" in order to win sexual favors from credulous country women. An epidemic of public rites of exorcism led to a series of grisly deaths. In one notorious incident, Party Member Liu Wenxue enlisted a self-styled witch to exorcise his wife...
...name evolves: plain Balthasar Klossowski to start, then Balthasar de Klossowski, then Klossowski de Rola, and now, in his eighth decade, the "Comte de Rola." The fact that he has been able to fend off inquiry about his origins for so long is a tribute to the alarm that this glacial, gifted and pretentious man inspires in the French. The ostensible aim of his facade is to fade away, like the Cheshire cat (Balthus is fond of cats), and leave only the work, like the grin, hanging in the air. But the real result, of which Balthus must be meticulously...
Some students admitted that they were tempted to stay in bed through the alarm and that they took their time leaving the dorm. No one was injured in the blaze...
...point on which there is no argument is the importance of treating patients who, like the men in the study, have extremely high cholesterol levels. But doctors differ somewhat on when to sound the alarm. Some believe that anyone with a reading over 200 mg should cut back on fat and cholesterol: that would include more than half the U.S. population. A less extreme view is that only people with levels above 240 mg should receive serious attention. Says Rifkind: "People in this group represent only 20% of the population, but they suffer 40% of the heart attacks...
...then that I started counting the days until I could move out. When the family finally returned, I was packed and ready to go to my grandmother's. I told them about the burglar alarm fiasco, and they chuckled when I told them to fire their housekeeper. The toddler immediately recognized me and wanted to go outside and swing, but the now eight-month-old baby had changed so much that I didn't recognize her and she didn't recognize me. When I tried to hold her, she screamed and grabbed for her mother. Some thanks, I thought...