Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...years of publication, along with the familiar standbys (Art, Theater, Religion, etc.) that have been with us from the beginning, a number of sections have come and gone. That first 1923 issue had Imaginary Interviews as well as two sections called Point with Pride and View with Alarm. It also had sections called Aeronautics, Crime, and Law-no longer with us, though their subject matter is. Other vanished sections include Animals, Transport, and Personality. Time Table (1929) disappeared but resurfaced in slightly different form as Time Listings...
...Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche...
...sits, boys," cried the boss of the tugs. "Blow your horns!" The spirit of the occasion even moved the staid Queen Juliana. She tossed her purse to a surprised cop, waved away courtiers clucking in alarm, waded ankle-deep in the construction-site muck to reach the ladder and clamber to the top of Caisson...
...when they fail to give more than a grade. If examinations are to be a useful educational device, they require analysis and comment. Unhappily, the faculty cannot legislate into existence adequate comment by graders. They can, however, adopt the CRIMSON'S attitude toward present evil practices, and view with alarm...