Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an upset stomach forced an obviously tired Queen Elizabeth to take a couple of days off from her Canadian tour, London's Daily Herald cried out in alarm: THE QUEEN IS EXHAUSTED BRING HER HOME! "The truth is Her Majesty has the colly-wobbles," said the Daily Mirror. When with Gallic intuition France-Soir suggested that "Queen Elizabeth's fatigue and illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed...
...sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane down every aisle...
...Treasury has repeatedly proclaimed that the outflow of gold from the U.S. gives no cause for alarm. Last week there were signs of a shift in this attitude by the Administration, and with it a possible shift in U.S. foreign economic-aid policy. The change was prompted by the fact that the U.S. loss of gold from Jan. 1 to July 24 was $898 million; the U.S. foreign-payments deficit this year will run $4.9 billion. Much of the deficit comes from the $5.5 billion the U.S. will spend this year in foreign aid, loans and military help...
Behind Martin's alarm lay an attempt by easy-money advocates in Congress to use the Government's bond crisis (TIME, June 15) to put pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to go back to the wartime policy of supporting the market for Government bonds. The Fed now buys short-term Treasury bills only. The Fed believes that if it bought bonds now, without wartime controls on spending, it would pump new money into the economy, thus nullifying its attempts to control the boom by tightening credit...
...surrounding the chamber had to weigh 200 tons. The great machine had to be movable, but wheels were too unstable. Instead, it was given four massive feet on which it could be walked around like a mechanical dinosaur. Leak detectors were installed everywhere to watch for escaping hydrogen; 104 alarm circuits inside the machine flash lights, ring bells and honk horns at the slightest hint of trouble. In a serious emergency (e.g., the failure of the refrigeration system) the entire stock of liquid hydrogen can be dumped through a pipe down a canyon and into a spherical tank...