Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...False Alarm. In Wethersfield, Conn., William H. Coney was fined $6 for having a noisy muffler, despite his protest that it kept him from falling asleep while driving...
...Force Vice Chief of Staff. An agent of the internal spy net, the Seguridad Nacional, posing as an air force officer, had tabbed Colonel Castro León as leader of the plotting airmen, and General Fuentes head army plotter. The arrests did not unduly alarm President Pérez Jiménez. At the reception, strutting and cocky because he had efficiently re-elected himself in a one-candidate plebiscite a fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 30), he announced an amnesty for the 3,000 oppositionists jailed during what had passed for an election campaign. Already free-and given...
...universities were generally as good as almost any in the land. Then Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, professor of church history at Catholic University of America, delivered his now famous lecture on "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life." Last week, taking off from Ellis' lecture. Father Cavanaugh sounded the alarm again. For 30 years, he said, evidence has been accumulating that "the intellectual prestige of American Catholics seems to be lower than the intellectual prestige of Catholics in any other country in the whole Western world...
...Pinch in Time. Many businessmen received the dip at year's end without alarm because they regarded it as a "recession as planned." As consumer prices had gone up month after month for the biggest rise (2.5%) in five years, the Federal Reserve Board, under tough-minded Chairman William McChesney Martin, worked with grim determination to keep the economy from growing too big, too fast. Martin stumped the nation preaching "inflation, not deflation, is the real danger." To check all phases of the buying jag-a rise in industrial expansion, piling up of business inventories and increases in consumer...
Radcliffe officials speculated that the boys intended to ring the fire drill bell, but instead rang the alarm which summons the police and fire department...