Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spillover Effect. Dubček has no intention of breaking Czechoslovakia's links with the Soviet Union and his socialist neighbors, but they view the events in Czechoslovakia with considerable alarm. They are all too aware that the success of Dubček's reforms would almost certainly have a spillover effect, causing their populaces to seek more liberalization at home. When Dubček was summoned to Dresden two weeks ago to tell party bosses from Russia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany just where he thought he was leading Czechoslovakia, he reportedly told them that he planned...
...surveys of state party chairmen found most of them still loyal to Johnson. Only three, in New York, Oregon and Tennessee, were willing to come out publicly for Kennedy. The initial reaction among congressional Democrats, even those sympathetic to Kennedy personally and on the major issues, was one of alarm rather than support. "He'll ruin the party!" was the reflex comment of several Capitol Hill Democrats. Most congressional Democrats and party officials in the states know that they face a tough campaign already and that a fight at the top can only make their own problems more serious...
...Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...using an ohmmeter, the Buildings and Grounds inspectors will be able to test the current in the alarm circuits without activating the loud horns, Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said yesterday...
After talking with the students involved, Whitla suggested the plan for the ohmmeters, which the Department of Buildings and Grounds has adopted. According to Stewart, Houses may activate the alarm system at the beginning of each year to show what the horns sound like...