Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them too, from time to time, are caught up by the cause. To capture the feelings of some of them, at least, TIME turned to Sue Kaufman, wife, mother, and author of Diary of a Mad Housewife, a novel (and later film) that early sounded the tocsin of domestic alarm...
Those studies, together with a 1970 Senate investigation of the Pill's side effects, caused some alarm, and the percentage of women using family-planning clinics who prefer the Pill fell from 76% to 70% (use of the intrauterine device, or IUD, and the diaphragm increased as a consequence). The wide concern about the Pill's side effects made many doctors more selective about which women should take them, and in what strength they should be prescribed. Physicians, however, generally are persuaded that the Pill is safe for most women, and so are researchers. They are working...
Holding Fast. After the other deputy's call, Mutters drove to the slag heap and checked with a mining official, who assured him that the dam was holding fast. Unconvinced, Mutters set out in his car to spread the alarm. But there was too little time, and the people of Buffalo Creek had been threatened too often before with false alarms about the dam. Some time after 8 a.m., the wall of slag burst open "like a bomb had hit it," according to one witness, and a huge mountain of water and sludge descended on the hollow, trapping many...
...heavy coverage in unfavorable situations. When Muskie was noncommittal about Gay Liberation, the Union Leader was there to point out on Page One that he had not condemned it. When Mrs. George McGovern mistook a portrait of Daniel Webster for William McKinley, Loeb viewed the lapse with such alarm that he used it in one of his frontpage editorials to question Senator McGovern's qualifications...
Sanctuary, the hostel and counseling service for Cambridge street people whose headquarters at 74 Mt. Auburn St. suffered extensive damage from a two-alarm fire last Saturday, is now taking steps to re-establish their operations...