Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between the original alarm and the denouement, Goldwater seized upon the opportunity to deride the communications system. Snorted Barry: "With the great communications system which McNamara is always bragging about, they are waiting for an airmail letter to find out just what did happen...
...have to accept it, though, to dispute those who view "sterile academicism" with excessive alarm...
...Second by second the suspense intensifies. If the rope slips, if a tool falls, if so much as a large bead of sweat drops off the burglar's brow and lands on the pressure-sensitive floor, the impact will inevitably stimulate tiny electronic centers and trip the general alarm...
Though told that they would be welcomed as liberators, the visitors enjoyed little hospitality. Fishermen raced to sound the alarm. Rubber tappers in one village spotted three invaders through the trees, captured them on the spot. Guided by locals, government helicopters and troops swarmed in, engaged the raiders in a series of running machine gun fights. By last week the government had killed 18, captured 47, was endeavoring to mop up an estimated 35 still at large. Of the 65 accounted for, a score or more were Malaysian traitors recruited in Malaya and trained on either Batam or Sumatra. Several...
Nearby Plane. When the guard came to a few minutes later and sounded the alarm, the usual massive police search was set in motion: roadblocks throughout the area, a special alert at airports and docks, lightning raids on London's underworld haunts, but in the first few days they turned up nothing. Wilson had vanished, perhaps in the car that had parked near the prison that night, perhaps in the light plane seen on a field six miles away. One popular theory put Wilson in Eire, where he might be taking advantage of the fact that its extradition agreement...