Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whoever pulled the job-presumably one of the more than 5,000 people who streamed through the gallery during the day-obviously knew exactly what to do. It just so happened that because the staff had been moving some pictures around that night, the gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed out that window and down a workman's ladder that had been left in the courtyard, then over a 12-ft. wall...
Thompson, crushed that while going out for the evening he had forgotten to turn on his elaborate burglar alarm, took the crudity of the theft to mean that no professional burglar had been at work. Only a fat reward, with no questions to be asked, he decided, might bring back the loot, and he at once offered...
...kits, and tools for debris removal. Another $10 million is earmarked for modifying existing shelters; by adding forced draft ventilators, many can be improved to take care of more people. To get civilians under cover in time, $10 million will be spent developing the acronymously named NEAR (National Emergency Alarm Repeater), a buzzer alarm the size of a cigarette pack that would sell for $5 or $10, be plugged into home electrical outlets, and set off by special transmitters installed in local power plants. And to make sure that survivors do not leave shelters too soon after an attack...
Watching the disturbing show, the governments of Venezuela and Colombia spoke out in alarm against the advance of Communism, and Guatemala urged the OAS to take action. Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos quietly ordered left-wing ex-President Lazaro Cardenas to refuse an invitation to the celebrations in Havana, and approved a speech by right-wing ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez, who said: "We must never permit ourselves to be dominated by outside powers or seduced by Utopian doctrines. Unfortunately, this has already occurred in the hemisphere of liberty...
...bustling Nairobi. Most whites on isolated farms were again carrying guns at all times. At mealtime, doors were unlocked only to let servants in and locked again after they had served the food. Barbed-wire barriers were strung across garden paths and floodlights left on throughout the night. Alarm sirens and clusters of distress rockets topped every farmhouse...