Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Nasser set Western alarm bells ringing by playing host to a Soviet naval delegation-which presented him with a model submarine-at the same time that Russian and Czech-built "naval units" were steaming into Egyptian ports to add muscle to his navy. Israeli newspapers warned that Nasser was about to reverse his stand against foreign bases by opening Alexandria to Moscow as a replacement for Russia's abandoned Albanian submarine base. Actually, Nasser granted a scant 35 minutes to the delegation's chief, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy...
...resident of Cabot Hall recalling an incident that occurred there observed that the drills present constant danger to "life and limb." When the clarion tones of the alarm sounded, one unsuspecting 'Cliffle fell down the stairs. She was on cructhes for weeks thereafter. Another girl reacted quite differently. While shaving her legs, she cut an artery--all over the living room...
...What has changed," writes Mrs. Purtell, "is the feeling of adult responsibility [which makes parents try] to find the reasons behind so many of the actions which alarm them." In her briskly written, though not startlingly new, account of parents' problems and ways to solve them, Author Purtell deals with such phenomena as going steady, parties, the adolescent revolution, and the adolescent and alcohol. Like Tiffany's Hoving, Parent Purtell advises nonchalance and an understanding hand with the kids. Parents, she says, "should stop torturing themselves...
...America, the Rev. Robinson talked an all-white Southern university audience out of setting off alarm clocks in open demonstration of their prejudice. From this group of 2500 came 50 later applications for the Crossroads Project...
...hidden problem of indirect costs, which can drain a university's funds, were a prime concern of the recent Cheever Report on Harvard and Federal Aid. The reported change in policy by the AEC was just a false alarm, according to Wiggins...