Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Fulbright (the darling of Northern literary liberals) and Alabama's John Sparkman, another man of liberal repute and Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1952, would concentrate on jury trial; Alabama's Lister Hill, a liberal in good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas' John McClellan, noted by television and general repute across the whole country for his stern morality, would stress the immorality of Part III. Russell's fellow Georgian...
Batista's nervous alarm at Smith's tour was a mark of the dictator's slipping strength. Santiago, Cuba's second city, is increasingly rebellious. The day of Ambassador Smith's visit a crowd of 50,000 went to the funeral of a rebel colonel killed by the Santiago police. The colonel's body was clothed in his military uniform and his casket decked with the rebel flag of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Showing their strength, the guerrilleros swept down from their mountain hideout and attacked military posts at Bueycito...
...Electric Co., turned the line over to International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which will operate it. Manning the remote outposts are 1,000 technicians, nearly 80% of them Canadians. The DEW-liners are confident that no invading aircraft can pass them undetected. In preliminary trials, even birds set the alarm bells ringing...
...come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There is one easy way out-reduce prices, and then everyone will find a storage place in their own stomachs. We will be able...
...Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...