Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the growing alarm, Detroit continues to promote the speed derby. General Motors has just introduced an all-aluminum 550-h.p. engine for the Corvette Sting Ray; with that power pack, the car costs about $9,000. Ford hopes to lure speedsters with a souped-up Mustang, called the "Boss 302." The auto is built with a wing across the rear deck to provide a downward thrust that adds traction to the wheels; it also has fixed louvres as bizarre sunshades on the rear window. The still more powerful "Boss 429" has a 375-h.p. engine that will whip...
According to Moriarty, a maintenance man on the third floor of the building heard the fire alarm go off at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday. He called the Harvard police, and then looked for the fire. He and the Cambridge police arrived at the site of the fire at approximately the same time...
...sprinkler system had gone off at the same time as the alarm. When the men entered the room, there were no flames. Some furniture and papers were smoldering, and there was a lot of smoke. The policemen broke a window and threw charred maps, books, and a podium outside. Three fire engines, a ladder truck, and a rescue car arrived at 4:43 a.m. Moriarty said the police looked for fingerprints...
...owner. Five years later he sold his Delaware outlets, moved to Clearwater and began expanding. Doubling in size every two years for a decade, Eckerd Drugs has acquired a candy manufacturing concern, the twelve-store Jackson's/Byron's Enterprises department-store chain, Gray Security Inc. (watchmen and alarm systems), and the busiest film-processing laboratory in the state. The company went public in 1959; since then, its stock has moved up to trade on the New York Stock Exchange and has vastly increased in market value from $5,500,000 to $134 million...
...open discussion in Burr B flowed back and forth Several alumni walked out stammering under their breath that the place hadn't changed a bit. Same old flaming liberals. Outside some older graduates paused to talk about student protest in general although none felt any immediate alarm over the possibility that it might happen at Harvard...