Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing to alarm anybody in Martin's testimony, taken by itself; like Humphrey he was just suggesting that it was time to think about the future. But at a Washington dinner given by the Citizens' Committee for the Hoover Report came a candid, grandfatherly rumble from a man whose very name has been used by Democrats for years to frighten Prosperity's babies. Warned ex-President Herbert Hoover: "Secretary Humphrey says that unless we change some of our ways, we will see 'a depression that will curl your hair.' Mine has already been...
...Peaceful." Mayor Gayle and Police Commissioner Sellers rushed out with the cops to answer the alarm and found themselves up against a Negro crowd in the ugliest sort of mood. King's nonviolent teachings had sunk deep (since the boycott began, Montgomery's crimes of violence by Negroes have decreased by an estimated 20%), but at this moment the impulse to answer white violence with Negro violence seemed irresistible. A growl of fury came from the Negro crowd; there was a forward surge that left no doubt in the mind of anyone present that Mayor Gayle...
...prestigious Catholic quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance (as did Saul with the Witch of Endor), not against seeing them. Author Leslie...
...surprising when it comes from an existentially-minded French intellectual. As a novelist, Camus dissipates his shock effect by telling his story in a long-winded flashback. As a thinker, he remains as provocative, and to many of his French fellow intellectuals as annoying, as an alarm clock going off in the middle of the night...
...constant characteristic running through the species revolves around the hour of arising. The Roommate habitually sets the alarm for 7:30, stumbles out of bed at that improbable hour, silences the clanging, and plunges cloudily back into the sack whence he emerged, leaving his victimized comrade to sleep angelically through his 9 o'clock lecture. Invariably, moreover, he is at the toothpaste, in the shower, on the Seat, or at the sink at the precise moment you would like to use said utility. His timing is infallible...