Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never have enough alarm-shouting about this plague. It has spread far beyond academe and the professions...
...Manhattan, some 200 civil rights leaders turned out for a defend-Powell meeting in the Harlem headquarters of A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. "We view with alarm and disbelief," said Randolph, "the attempt by a small and vindictive clique in the House to unseat the Representative from Harlem." Randolph assured the session that he had talked by phone with Powell, who was still vacationing in his Bahamian island retreat, and that Adam had sent "his greatest love" to all in attendance. Cried Livingston Wingate, onetime Powell aide and former director of HARYOUACT...
...even more deeply disturbed after former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a neighbor of Manchester's near the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Conn., saw the author's agreement with Look. Goodwin, realizing that Manchester had assured the magazine of no interference from the Kennedys, took alarm. He and Manchester flew up to Hyannis Port with Look's publisher, Gardner Cowles, and there Jackie gave them an ear-searing lecture...
Mail Now. In a final effort to reach agreement, Goodwin sent Look and Harper a memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided...
...entry alarm had been turned off. Mazer ran downstairs and out into the House courtyard. "Where is a fireman?" he asked a student in the yard who had stopped to look at the smoke drifting from the window...