Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public recognition can't distract him from his devotion to radio. He was the kind of boy who built crystal sets out of oatmeal boxes and rejoiced when be picked up a station in Pittsburgh. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, Jacobs does not need an alarm clock to wake himself up at 6:30 a.m. "I get on the radio in the morning like some people get up for breakfast." The excitement, after 40 years, has not worn...
Northeastern's lone goal three minutes into the second period sounded the alarm that woke Harvard from its exam break stupor. The Crimson was down only 40 seconds before Jack Garrity, still riding his goal scoring spree, punched in a rebound off a long shot by defenseman Bob Carr...
...interesting to see a director experiment this way with making his images the servants of his music, but I don't think it quite works here. Not as film, though perhaps as music. Demy said audiences would react as to a hot bath: a moment of alarm at the operatic style, then relaxation. Though my alarm diminished steadily, I didn't find ninety minutes long enough for a thorough adjustment...
...Hour Trip. Not all solar flares are accompanied by dangerous proton outbursts, and the solar patrol will have to take care not to set off a false alarm that might unnecessarily abort a costly Apollo mission. But on the basis of past observations, the patrolmen know that if a flare is large and bright enough, if it is located close enough to a sunspot and is the source of strong radio signals over a wide range of frequencies, its appearance almost always heralds a hail of high-energy protons...
They worried over reports that Quarterback Bart Starr could barely lift his arm, let alone throw a pass, that Fullback Jim Taylor was limping around with a pulled groin muscle, that Halfback Paul Hornung was nursing bruised ribs, a twisted knee and a sprained wrist. They noted with alarm that Coach Vince Lombardi thought so little of Taylor and Hornung that he had already hired their replacements-signing Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski for $250,000, shelling out $600,000 for Texas Tech's Donny Anderson, who just might run, catch and kick better than any halfback since Doak Walker...