Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like that of a father who sees his child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy of backing the discredited Chiang may be stupid, but riots like this encourage isolationism...
Emergency Aid. In the fire-alarm crises in Iran. Guatemala, Viet Nam, and Jordan, the U.S. used the technique of military-economic aid repeatedly and effectively to defeat Communist attempts to take over whole nations by subversion. Drawing the moral, Ike now wants a special emergency fund of $300 million to enable the U.S. to act swiftly and flexibly in whatever new crises come...
Danger of genetic damage from fallout radiation that affects the reproductive organs does not alarm Libby either. The amount is too small, he says, "from 0.7% to about 3% of the natural radiation exposure." Another Libby example: a person moving into a concrete-block house in certain countries may get up to 100 times as much additional radiation from naturally radioactive elements in the concrete as he is getting from present fallout. He recognizes that fission products from past tests are still stored in the stratosphere and that they will soon be joined by the products of new tests. This...
...Penny Earned. In Hartford, Conn., a burglar quietly broke the glass in the front door of the Eastern Automotive Co., skillfully disconnected the alarm, forced open the empty cash register, desperately ripped open the sales-tax container and cleaned...
...bridge, where a "good-natured bloke" turned on the public-address system so they could appeal for donations. Instead, "Pirate" Paul Lennon shouted: "Now hear this! The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" Then, for good measure, says Lennon, "we turned two handles labeled 'Battle Alarm' and 'Chemical Warfare...