Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone from the apartments above, below and next to the watched apartment. Wearing armored vests because they have word that Velez may be armed with a grenade as well as a gun, they force their way in. All they find is a swarm of cockroaches. They issue a formal alarm for the arrest of Velez...
Paul Revere these days gallops onto New York TV screens crying breathlessly: "Independence is here! Independence is here!" His message: the South Brooklyn Savings Bank has changed its name to the Independence Savings Bank. He might as well be raising the alarm that from now until July 4, 1976, and no doubt beyond, the American consumer will be assailed by an army of business mercenaries out to make money from patriotic fervor...
...Little Bait. In Southeast Asia, the Soviet drive is for military bases. The Russians are eying Cam Ranh Bay, the massive port in South Viet Nam built by the U.S. for more than $130 million. Because such an acquisition would really alarm China, most observers see it as unlikely. "Whether Hanoi avoids Peking's wrath will depend on how successfully the North Vietnamese can make it appear that they are working in Asia's interest and not just in their own or the Soviet Union's," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "Hanoi just...
HOUGH's achievement is in narrating from an old man's perspective and expressing the weariness and grace of a responsible and lonely man crumbling unremorsefully into "decrepitude." Gifford's recognition of a new and foul society is stated not with the tragic alarm of the young man, say of Hough's age, but with humility and resignation, by a police chief who knows it is time to retire...
...country. It also became the model 50 years later for the mass production of watches. The fine, precise machine tools used by watchmakers to create the cheap timepieces that eventually sold for a dollar were directly descended from the Whitney musket factory. By 1876 the American wind-up alarm clock had been invented at the Seth Thomas Clock Co. in Connecticut. The morning would never be the same again...