Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard decision to go to the aid of Lebanon came short hours after the nationalist coup in Iraq threatened to set the whole Mideast in flame. In its historic answer to the faraway fire alarm...
...reports told everything the U.S. knew to that moment about the coup, and estimated what its effects might be on such Western allies as Jordan and Lebanon. Since the predawn alarm was sounded by the duty officers at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, staffers had been at work getting the material ready for presidential decision. In the silence of his White House office, the President of the U.S. knew in Monday's early hours that he must act in time...
...Boston Big Shot Bernard Goldfine paid posh Burning Tree Club, where White House staffers golf, for the expensive set of Spalding clubs used by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty efficiently checked with Boss Adams, quickly assured reporters that the whole thing was a false alarm. Sure, Adams got the clubs for nothing, but not from his "old and dear friend" Goldfine, donor of the vicuña coat and the $2,400 Oriental rug. The club-giver turned out to be a Massachusetts theater-chain owner named Sam Goldstein. "He is a very old personal...
Gaunt and pale from recurrent flu attacks and daily overwork, President Arturo Frondizi battled his way through the worst crisis in his regime's troubled three months of life. He won a breather last week mainly because the going got rough enough to alarm even the Peronistas who had started all the trouble...
...Malts Alarm. In Owosso, Mich., when a fire started in Dewey Campbell's auto, Dewey got a bottle of beer from a saloon, shook it up, extinguished the flame with foaming brew...