Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time, the U.S. will be able to drift away from the gold pool and greatly lessen the monetary emphasis on gold, thus ridding the world of much of the alarm, speculation and instability caused by what William McChesney Martin calls "that barbarous metal." Most bankers and economists believe that the major monetary trend of the future will be a shift away from gold and toward a truly international paper currency, supported by contributions of currencies from all major nations. When that happens, money will be regulated by men instead of metal, and the value of each nation...
...JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Smothers Brothers, Barbara McNair and the Strawberry Alarm Clock sound off as Winters' guests...
After an unsuccessful attempt to smother the flames with a pillow, Grainger kicked the can of fluid into the fireplace and rang the alarm. "I expected the can to explode with a sort of napalm effect," he said...
...When they got no takers, they withdrew, hurling behind them their ultimate epithet: "Sons of Americans!" Earlier in the day, villagers had reported to their 140-man defense force that some Viet Cong were roaming through the surrounding fields. But that was hardly unusual, or cause for any particular alarm. The Viet Cong had steadily harassed Dak Son, and four times this year had mounted an attack and tried to overrun it; each time they had been stopped short of the defense perimeter and thrown back...
...main line of resistance at Um-Katef, and opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm not to die for hours-like a soft reminder of what...