Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through A Clockwork Orange, research scientists have been gumming things up, thereby giving the screaming fits to threatened humanists who run out to sound the alarm. In The Terminal Man, the machines, true to form, run amuck, but it is only a two-alarm panic. The twist-it can hardly be called a novelty-is that this time the machine is a man, one Harry Benson, who has had a computer implanted in his brain. Subject to unpredictable fits of rage, Benson used to beat his wife and take potshots at the neighbors...
Expenditures for such developments alarm critics like University of Chicago Professor Hans Morgenthau, who voices concern about overkill: "If a country has the ability to destroy its enemy ten times over but the enemy has only the capacity to destroy that country five times over, it does not make that country superior to its enemy...
...electronically controlled explosive devices to simulate cannons in the pit. Last week, before a crowd of 1,500, he pressed a button on the conductor's stand on cue, and a smoky, skull-splitting blast filled the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center. That triggered a smoke-sensitive automatic fire alarm. In minutes, 25 eager firemen charged into the auditorium, axes and hoses at the ready. While a dazed audience watched helplessly, the firemen made for the smoke-filled pit and came within a split second of dousing both crowd and orchestra. Shaw admitted to confusion. "As the smoke cleared...
...know-how to operate atomic-power stations by the early 1980s. The main catch: working out a foolproof safeguard system to guarantee that the Egyptians could not use the nuclear equipment to make atomic weapons. The prospect of the Arabs' getting nuclear help from the U.S. raised immediate alarm in Israel and in the U.S. Congress. Democratic Senator Frank Church declared that Nixon had gone "beyond propriety" in making the agreement, and Democratic Congressman Melvin Price, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, predicted that his group would have to hold thorough hearings to make sure that...
...FUTURE OF WHITES IN THE TERRITORIES. "I see no reason for alarm on the part of the [white] population of Mozambique about the possibility of a massive return to Europe in a moment of panic. I know that the Frelimo people, who are responsible men fully aware of the part they are playing, have undertaken to safeguard the legitimate rights of the white population. They think that in the future they will need the technical and economic cooperation of this population...