Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airplane mishaps presently under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, no fewer than six involve liners that crashed on approach to an airport. That is a considerably higher figure than the world wide incidence rate of 47%, and it has caused fresh alarm on the part of air safety experts about the adequacy of instrument-landing equipment at U.S. airports. Bad weather-or weather that required instrument landings-was a factor in at least four of the six approach crashes, and safety experts point out that less than a third of the nation's 623 commercial airports have...
...looks like a tensed-up Terry-Thomas and sprinkles his speeches with allusions to classical history, has emerged as his own kind of politician-prophet. In the process, he has stirred a furor both in Britain and abroad. For what Powell sees-and speaks for-is the alarm, fear and resentment of the white British toward the African and Asian peoples of the Commonwealth who have emigrated to Britain...
...false alarm. After an interminable five minutes when the planes were taxiing back to the crowd, the doors opened but the crewmen didn't get out. From one door stepped Senator Margaret Chase Smith, wearing a red dress and walking on crutches; out of the other plane came California's Governor Ronald Reagan and his family. A brief titter over Reagan subsided, and the crowd went back to its waiting. As the band broke into "76 Trombones," a voice came over the loudspeakers: "the planes bearing the men of the Pueblo are 40 miles away...
...them were caught in the coop by New York Times Reporter David Burnham, who cruised the streets in the early morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...