Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese or Eskimos, whether their aggression takes the form of a frontal assault, blitzkrieg, treacherous tactics or the barbarous slaughtering of innocents), and dishonor the noble flag under which millions have been and are being saved from tyranny for the fourth time this century-one can only marvel in alarm at the subtle efficiency with which international Communism has succeeded in corrupting the thinking and moral fiber of so many and enlisting them in a cause against themselves...
...Some, like Mme. Seydel, reached windows and managed to escape without serious injury. Others found windows jammed or locked and had to smash through to exterior ledges and balconies; still others clambered to neighboring rooftops. Brussels firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars...
...might have stayed longer," he added, "if I could have made a continuing creative contribution. But what I had to bring to it was brought to it. I hear next year's alarm bell ringing [the election], and I want to get at it." His new job: Washington-based correspondent with a worldwide beat. Terms were not disclosed, but Chancellor was already earning more than double his $24,500 VGA salary on his previous hitch with...
...goes." Callaghan urged another year of deflation. Government spending will rise by 8½%, he said, but wages, profits, dividends will continue to be dampened -by law until the austerity measures run out in July, after that by persuasion and the specter of reimposed orders. To the alarm of businessmen, private investment will drop another 10% under government pressure...
...girls wear patterned or mesh stockings, why Germans make better nuclear physicists than Americans, why an American is repulsed when a foreigner carries on a conversation only three inches from the American's face, why there is such widespread distaste for the war in Vietnam, why some Arabs wear alarm clocks in their turbans to gain status...