Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Milk & Oatmeal Cookies. Because of its end effects, genuine hippies have never taken to speed to any great extent and look with alarm, like the Avatar, at its growing use in their communities, mostly by teen-agers and would-be hippie converts like Linda Fitzpatrick. "Everybody says, 'Acid: good and good for you. Grass: good like milk and oatmeal cookies,'" notes one Los Angeles rock musician. "So kids begin to think in terms of drugs and they think, 'Meth! Groovy!' But they don't know that it can destroy them...
They did not; several months in isolation followed. But Green was not cured. In 1955, he sawed his way out of his cell, but the alarm went off before he and his confederates could get any farther. Desperately, they took over a cell block, and an 84-hour prison revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal...
...swoop down out of the skies on the enemy's big main-force units wherever they could be found, engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf course"at An Khe in the Central Highlands to await the next alarm. Brilliantly executed, the assignment helped to turn the tide against the Communists. The Air Cav carried out 53 major leap-and-strike operations in 52 weeks ranging from the la Drang Valley near Cambodia to the coastal plains of the South China Sea, killing 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet...
MORE SPEECHES FROM THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WILL BE FOUND IN MONDAY'S SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT gestion, but I do express my alarm at our failure to grasp and grapple with basic administrative problems in our system of justice. One able and and hard-working federal judge was recently moved to say that unless we meet and master these problems, our system of justice, as we know it, will disappear...
Deputy Fire-Chief John Kenney, who rushed to the dormitory when the alarm sounded, said the fire was started by a fat candle the girls had left burning under the bed "for a long time." The heat from the candle apparently dried out the mattress and reduced its ignition point...