Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearing delicate technical circumlocutions from poets, discussions of style at the expense of content. We have very thoroughly withdrawn from the theory of messages, Berryman no less than most; but the man is fully as anxious to see people grasp what the poem is about as he is to alarm and confuse them with unusual language. He began writing, he says, "as a burning trivial disciple of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats," but Yeats "could not teach me to sound like myself (whatever that was) or tell me what to write about." What drove him away from Yeats...
...delivered in a droll drawl, intends to conduct a debate with or without Kennedy. Indeed, he keeps writing about Kennedy in his column, "On the Right," carried in 148 papers. Last week he had a piece titled "The Inevitability of Bobby Kennedy," which reported with some humor and without alarm that Bobby is headed for higher things...
...three recovered bombs had actually survived the fall intact. Some of the TNT detonators on the other two had exploded on impact and ruptured the shell casing, permitting some radioactive plutonium and uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from...
...time young Maarten had enrolled at the University of Groningen, where he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy, his dedication to astronomy had begun to alarm his father, a government accountant. "How can you earn your daily bread by looking at the stars?", the elder Schmidt asked repeatedly. He was placated only by a direct appeal from University Astronomy Professor Adriaan Blaauw, who saw in the eager young student the makings of an able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous...
Concentration of power and virtually all significant policy-making in the Presidency would not be viewed by Burns as cause for alarm, because of the tendency of the President to surround himself with concentric rings of decision-makers who form a stable system of collective leadership. But this is not a convincing argument against fears of potential problems in the Presidency if, say, a Barry Gold-were to occupy the White House...