Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for construction of a $2 million motel, which would replace the Radcliffe off-campus house now at 1653 Massachusetts Avenue, have been postponed indefinitely. According to George Economy, owner of the property, the previously announced plans were "just a false alarm...
...crux of the dilemma rested on the finely-felted shoulder of Timeditor Luce. Globally viewing with alarm, he messaged his trimly serene wife she must resign lest Timempire acquire politically biased repute. Clearly, she agreed that personal ambition, plus loss of her finely-honed talents, must yield to the greater, world-wide, propagation of truth, untainted...
Last March Touré received a shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia that included 3,000 rifles and automatic weapons. Last week another shipment (the third) arrived on a Polish vessel. When Paris expressed alarm at the deals, Touré angrily denounced the "hostile attitude of French diplomacy...
...Britain; total U.S. investment now stands at about $2.8 billion. Last week after Timken Roller Bearing Co. had offered $30.5 million for the outstanding British-held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over recent years." Wrote the News Chronicle's Michael Gassman: "There should...
Bonfires either within the College Fence or elsewhere still annoyed Faculty and Presidents. Jared Sparks issued the infamous Laws of 1848, which included the edict that, "Any student crying fire, sounding an alarm, leaving their rooms, shouting or clapping from a window, going to the fire, or being seen at it, going into the College Yard, or assembling on account of such bonfire, shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, and punished accordingly...