Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South's worried soul-searching over desegregation, Southern businessmen have found a new cause for alarm. They fear that the uproar may scare away their star boarder: new industry from the North. In the lead article of its April issue, the Southern Regional Council's New South cautions: "The bright future of the South in industry is being dimmed by racial tensions." pie D. Shelton, executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, warned the Southern Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives: "Boycotts, economic reprisals, incidents of violence-these are new factors which will...
...tenants, Mrs. Hilda Marie Marks leaned over a velvet guide rope in the chandeliered Red Room, dropped the newspaper on a chair and tossed a lighted box of matches on it. Moments later a guard saw the flame crackle up and snuffed it: there was no damage, no fire alarm, no report to the President at work in his office a hundred yards away. There was also, when the guard had the fire out and looked around to see who caused it, no sign of Hilda Marks. She had moved with the line to other rooms; so engrossed were...
...rising toward the danger point. The scientist, watching the instruments, told the technician to shut the reactor off instantly, but his order was misunderstood; the technician used control devices that were too slow. Before they could take effect the core had partially melted. Instruments warned of radiation danger, the alarm was given, and the building was cleared. No one was hurt, but the reactor is still shut down...
...Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest of the Community of the Resurrection who has become a symbol and rallying point of resistance to apartheid in South Africa, where he has been stationed for twelve years. In Africa, whence his superiors have recently recalled him to England, white supremacists viewed him with alarm as a kamrboetie (roughly, nigger-lover) and predicted he would not be allowed to visit the U.S. Southern states, let alone be permitted to speak there. But Father Huddleston was able to travel and to talk with representatives of both sides in the South...
...prevailed by a majority of twenty votes or less in the lower house. In the case of the extension of the "peacetime" draft, three months before Pearl Harbor, the majority margin in the House of Representatives was a single vote. Even today, the cries of indignation and alarm which may be heard constantly on both sides of the political fence seem to the casual observer to contradict any assumption of popular agreement...