Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Justice Earl Warren sounded an alarm in April. Speaking at Duke University, Warren warned against a spreading movement for adoption of three "states' rights" amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would...
Calling Harvard's "timidity ... unworthy of a university which claims to encourage free inquiry and exploration," the letter charged that the Administration "reacted with undue alarm to the widespread public controversy" over the drugs...
...Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley views with alarm the deterioration of the national shrines at Gettysburg...
Despite its lack of alarm, the report clearly recognizes that the large-scale use of pesticides is a new phenomenon that should be studied and carefully regulated. There is no doubt that in large quantities some chemicals can do harm, and the small amounts of pesticides that get into human bodies at present may have long-term effects that have not yet been recognized. New pesticides may prove to have unexpected dangers, and familiar ones may become damaging if they accumulate in soil or ground water. To avoid such threats, the report recommends: > More federal research on the effects...