Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter of William Randolph Hearst, not Randolph A. Hearst, had been kidnaped. "It has been like that," says Austin. "Tips that get twisted. Rumors with kernels of truth. Outright lies." How, then, to get the story? "It's like being a fireman," says Boyce. "You answer every alarm though you know it may be false. You continue to dig, check and crosscheck, and try to put the pieces together...
...style and history ("The last time an editor is a free spirit is the day he puts to press volume one, number one"). Publishing economics is an ever larger concern ("Somewhere in the background can be heard the ring of the cash register, or else the clang of an alarm bell over the cash register's silence"). He insists that newsmen keep their heads even when dealing with mind-boggling events ("Journalism, like a teapot handle, is presumed to be able to remain cool while transmitting...
Fire gutted a first-floor suite and caused minor damage to a hallway in Lowell House early Sunday morning, injuring one student and bringing calls for improved alarm systems and evacuation procedures...
Kenneth H. Levison, senior tutor of Lowell House, said yesterday that he and other Lowell residents were "all extremely frustrated and perplexed" by the failure of the fire alarm system to operate properly...
Increased Alarm. Now even more than before his exile, Solzhenitsyn is determined that The Gulag Archipelago, his monumental study of Soviet repression, should reach the Soviet people. Just before his deportation, he taped an excerpt from an unpublished part of Gulag for a BBC broadcast to the U.S.S.R. Last week he met with his Paris publisher to arrange for publication of the whole seven-part work, of which only two sections have appeared in the West. At the same time, the Kremlin was showing increasing alarm at the spread of Gulag in the Soviet Union via Western shortwave radio broadcasts...