Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hook-and-ladder trucks and four engines responded to the alarm. Most of the bedroom furnishings were thrown into the street where firemen hosed them own. Deputy Cremins said that last night's fire was the second largest in Cambridge this year...
Acting on Westmoreland's urgent plea for more combat troops and planes, the President in July spent eight days in secret conferences before adopting a cautious program of "maximum deterrence" calculated not to unduly alarm Hanoi's friends in Moscow. For the first time in any comparable emergency, the Administration did not order economic controls or mobilize reserves. Monthly draft calls were doubled to 35,000. The armed forces were authorized an additional 340,000 men for a total of 2,980,000. Most important of all, reinforcements were rushed to Viet...
...Danang is Company C, or "Charlie Med" to the gyrenes. "Back last summer," says Lieut. Commander Richard M. Escajeda, 36, chief surgeon and commander of Charlie Med, "we used to classify eight casualties as a mass casualty event. Then we rang a big metal ring-like a country fire alarm-and everybody reported to his station. Now things have changed so, we have to get 20 patients at once before we consider it a mass casualty...
...over the nation, a growing number of city magazines are sounding the civic alarm bell. Once mostly the tame products of chambers of commerce, and dedicated to singing the praises of their cities, they are now breaking loose on their own. Magazines like Seattle, Greater Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix are privately published and proudly argumentative. They tackle the kind of controversial issues-haphazard zoning, air pollution, lethargic politics, shoddy construction-that would have frightened off their predecessors. "We were a booster before," says Alan Halpern, 39, editor of Greater Philadelphia...
...accessories, have stepped up their overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum cleaner...