Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldwide alarm over Soviet long-range missiles, scant attention was paid to the U.S. Army's warning that Russia has made startling progress in the development and production of conventional weapons. Last week, with its Explorer triumphantly orbiting, the Army found a readier audience for its down-to-earth worries. The Army's argument: if it is to meet the Soviet challenge on the ground, it needs more and newer hardware...
Loyalties & Lozenges. The motive for all this activity is not entirely religious. Lourdes is a city of shops-some 400, most of them crammed with cheap religious souvenirs: bottles for carrying water from the grotto, alarm clocks that tinkle Ave Maria, cellophane bags of throat lozenges made from "Genuine Lourdes Water." The names on the shop fronts are aimed at special loyalties: "The Infant Jesus of Prague," "St. Laurence O'Toole" (proprietors Walsh & Douly). These highly competitive private enterprises have helped the city to an estimated income of 10 billion francs (almost $24 million) a year, a figure that...
...swapped rumors, and the press daily demanded the return of President Sukarno from his extended vacation. "Dally no more," urged the Times of Indonesia. But in Tokyo, Sukarno dallied on. He lunched with Emperor Hirohito, visited shrines, bandied compliments with Miss Nippon of 1951. "There is no cause for alarm or anxiety," said Sukarno...
Viewing the general condition with considerable alarm, members of Houston's Junior Chamber of Commerce organized a group bluntly called the Murdertown Committee, sent observers to Chicago (murders, first-half 1957: 131) to study crime-prevention methods. Other Houstonians, scanning the city's growing, two-fisted boomtown bustle, agree that the committee will have to work fast. At week's end Murdertown notched up its eleventh murder for 1958-a good head start on last year's record...
...dump. A doctor, checking radium needles at the hospital, noticed that the tip of the one used on Joke (it had already been condemned because of oxidation at the junction of head and shaft) was missing. When it could not be found in the treatment room, out went the alarm...