Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humorous aspects of premeditated murder are almost identical with those of custard-pie comedy: connoisseurs of both can enjoy the victim's splendid initial innocence, his growing disbelief and alarm, and, finally, his absurd response to the inexorable offices of fate. It takes a trained mind to really appreciate the drolleries of the rubout, however; when the gaudiest murder of the year was staged one morning last week in the barber shop of Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel, nobody in the U.S. was as well qualified to enjoy its subtleties as bulky, greying Albert Anastasia-onetime Lord High...
...good-naturedly sipped maté in the spring sunshine or played sand-lot soccer. As the strike dragged on, soldiers took over buses, and society women, made change in subway booths. Tacks thrown into streets halted 90 buses and a fire engine on its way to answer a fire alarm; a Molotov cocktail was tossed against a bus. But at strike's end most workers went quietly back to work...
Even before the new TV season began, most critics viewed it with alarm. As it unfolded, many saw eye to eye with the Variety headline: NEW TELEVISION SEASON A DUD. Last week the TV industry struck back. Though it had offered little new on the screen, it did come up with some fresh epithets for critics...
...much plot-which is fortunate, since there has not been one either with such strenuous overacting. Under Shepard Traube's direction, a largely English cast headed by Denholm Elliott (Ring Round the Moon) and Patricia Jessel (Witness for the Prosecution) exhibit all the subtlety of a burglar alarm. But however heavy-footed in style, Monique-at least for anyone unacquainted with the book or the film-moves with considerable suspense from one plot to twist to another, and offers a passable surprise at the final curtain...
Keeping a careful eye on the indexes, the Federal Reserve saw no cause for alarm, nor did it see any reason to spur business by easing its tight money policy −at least for the moment. The Fed has helped to check inflation, said President Alfred Hayes of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, but it cannot risk relaxing credit restrictions while living costs continue "their seemingly inexorable rise." When the proper time comes, said Hayes, the Fed will "work the other side of the street." As for businessmen, General Electric President Ralph Cordiner reflected the feelings of many...