Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleging anything with real conviction, and by the time the alarm clock went off at the end of the game, most of the assorted journalists and hockey enthusiasts who were spectating had slumped into other, more fruitful pastimes, such as sleeping...
Rise & Fine. In Columbia, S.C., after she turned in a false alarm, Dorothy Genokes was fined $25.50 despite her explanation: she couldn't wake her boy friend up, "so I decided to let the fire department...
Last week the Communist-run C.G.T., France's biggest labor union, instructed local officials to threaten factory and mine employers with a strike if any Hungarians were hired. Like any other confidence man, the party wanted no swindled customers mingling with the suckers and queering its pitch. Its alarm was well-founded. Already, C.G.T. membership has fallen off sharply in factories where Hungarians had gotten jobs...
Okinawa's majority Democratic Party took alarm. Its conservative businessmen leaders well knew that U.S. dollars were responsible for Okinawa's new schools and hospitals, even for the bright new concrete buildings and paved streets of Naha itself. Two days after election, 27 of Naha's 30 city councilors announced that they would "refuse to cooperate with a Communist mayor pledged to destroy all the progress Naha has made with the aid and good will of the U.S." Simultaneously, all 22 of the city department heads resigned "in protest against serving under ex-Convict Senaga." Moriyasu Tomihara...
Though ODM's decision sorely disappointed steelmakers, there were few cries of real alarm. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. announced that they would review expansion plans; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. said that it would be forced to reappraise plans for a new $250 million mill planned for Houston. But most steelmen had already decided that they have to expand one way or another to meet their growing markets. Republic Steel Corp. will still continue with its $187 million expansion program; so will Pittsburgh Steel Co., National Steel Corp., Armco Steel Corp. and Inland Steel...