Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he retired in 1968. Bronk served as a science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet scientific establishment...
...attempt to seize it with a grappling hook. Later they brought it down to Cross Campus Library, where they tried to put it on closed reserve. (They Yale Spelunking Club subsequently retaliated by temporarily cutting the power in Jonathan Edwards at 3 a.m., thus causing JE residents with electric alarm clocks to be a half hour late for their morning classes...
...John Birch Society and other conspiracy theorists of world history have accomplished at least a consciousness-raising exercise. They were the first to point with alarm at the international power of multinational corporations. They opposed intervention in South Vietnam, arguing that such action was designed by the Communist Conspiracy embedded in the US government to waste American resources in a fruitless cause, to create instability in the American economy, and to divide and polarize American society...
...fire trucks were called in again at 3:30 p.m. According to Shaw, this time the call was in response to a faulty alarm system...
...fire alarm system sometimes even gets caught up with the burglar alarm and telephone system." a fireman on the scene said. "But we keep coming," he added. "Someday they might just burn this place down...