Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times a year, Marsden said, "we get telegrams which lead nowhere. Last week, one man claimed to have discover- ed a colossal nova, but it turned out to be the planet Saturn. It usually taken a fey seconds of observation to find the false alarm...
...city is comfortably inviting. Even your own back yard takes on a new look. There is an instant rapport with the people you meet; there are no intruders or adversaries, only kindred spirits. For a rewarding experience, turn the TV off a little early and set the alarm for 15 minutes before dawn...
Krogager wears a wristwatch with built-in alarm; when it rings during business conferences, he leaves to attend his pastoral duties for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself...
Biggest Bulls. Baltimore's only apparent weakness is its front-line pitching: in 90 tries so far, Orioles starters have managed to complete a mere 15 games. That does not alarm Manager Bauer. "All I want is six or seven good innings-and then I'll bring in the relievers," he says. "What the hell, I've got the best bullpen in the business...
...concede that any change will be slow in coming. Faced with a possibly revolutionary decision involving the church's stand on birth control, prudent Pope Paul VI is most unlikely to follow it up with an equally radical change in divorce law. More than once, he has expressed alarm at the mounting number of annulment cases clogging the Sacred Rota, the church's final court of appeal on such problems...