Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement on disarmament-with or without foolproof controls. Said a senior delegate: "The picture that Mr. Khrushchev drew of rockets coming out of Russian factories like sausages is a terrible picture of the arms race. It has deeply impressed most delegates. I think it has increased the feeling of alarm and urgency about the cold...
...Burmese diplomat, have sometimes felt like "the tender grass between the feet of two savage buffaloes locked in mortal combat." At this U.N. session the neutralist nations have thrown themselves between the colossi of East and West in the prayerful hope of ending the cold war. Feelings of alarm swept the uncommitted countries at the table thumpings and rocket rattlings of Nikita Khrushchev. They were dismayed by the parliamentary maneuvering of the U.S., which saw no advantage to "renewed" talks between Eisenhower and Khrushchev...
...alarm clock went off, rousing the bedroom's two occupants: William Fife Knowland. a retired politician, and Alice, a Saint Bernard who at 165 lbs. weighs just 60 less than her dieting master. After showering, shaving and dressing. Bill Knowland went downstairs for coffee with Paul Manolis, 32, his assistant, who lives a mile away. Then the two men set out on the fourmile. 55-minute walk from the Knowland home in suburban Piedmont to downtown Oakland, Calif., where former U.S. Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland now makes a living as editor of the Oakland evening Tribune (circ...
...lecherously and leers, "We gone take it from the top." When Millie blurts out the news that she is pregnant, Rutland reacts all over the place: he babbles to himself, "Millie, Millicent, Millicentus..." He declares, "There is no faith except deep knee bends." He runs off the stage, screaming "Alarm! Alarm!" He sneers, "Your inside wouldn't hold anything of mine." He taunts, "I'll lend you a sweat shirt." Finally, having come at the problem from every conceivable angle, and with pointless filth three feet deep on the stage, he snarls, "I hate...
...Harvard could a group call itself Tocsin? When spoken, the word carries a medicinal odor, rather than the intended echoes of a warning bell. Yet the group exists and, surprising for the "peace movement," its notes ring clear. Forged during the summer, it is preparing to sound the alarm about impending nuclear ruin...