Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party that came out of an inconclusive election holding the balance of power was one that gave most Canadians cause for anxiety and alarm. It was the Depression-born, woolly-minded, funny-money party that calls itself Social Credit, and it won 30 crucial votes that would be cast to keep the Conservatives in power, but could later be withheld at the appropriate time to bring Diefenbaker down. Its triumph was the victory of a shouting, arm-waving French Canadian auto dealer named Réal Caouette, 44, who overnight became a national figure. Le Tonnerre, he is called...
...practically everybody's business: not only do more than 15 million people hold shares, but some 120 million have stakes in stocks invested by such financial institutions as banks, insurance companies and pension funds. Understandably, then, the U.S. watched the gyrations of the market with interest and alarm. Yet there was also a remarkable degree of confidence in the basic strength of the nation's economy...
...consumes one-fifth of the nation's steel, has enough at its disposal to carry through the first month's production of its 1963 models. Ahead lie the traditional summer doldrums, when many big steel users close for vacation. Normally such a seasonal slowdown would cause no alarm, but steelmen today are none too bullish about their long-term prospects either...
...human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion of an alarm...
...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...