Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming of the red and black examination schedule and the impending arrival of blue examination books mark the time for viewing-with-alarm of the black hearts of some examiners and graders...
Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...
...addition, the report on Admissions issued in February 1960 by a Faculty committee viewed the decline of Greater Boston applicants with some alarm: "We are well on the way to losing touch with our own community. . . . This is a development which no university, public or private, can view with equanimity. It is especially disheartening in our case; for it is not too much to say that Harvard owes much of its distinctive quality and prestige to a relation with Boston which is unmatched, as between any other American private university and 'its' city...
...months of 1961-a 40% rise over the comparable period last year. Nowadays, most of the refugees remain in camps for only a few days of routine processing, then are sluiced on to jobs in booming, labor-short West German indus try. Although East German leaders have long expressed alarm at the continuing outflow of citizens, and particularly at the flight of the young and the skilled, they have cast about in vain for means of stopping...
...mixture as before, but some of the salt was missing. Gone were the public snarls at some particular foe. the three-alarm shrillness, the staccato urgency, the distinctive touch of a man who once polished trifles until they sometimes seemed to gleam. The staphylococcus infection that felled him last fall-"Same one Elizabeth Taylor had." says Winchell. not without pride-hit the 64-year-old columnist hard: "I had a time of it for six weeks." Now in Los Angeles soaking up sun, he divides his time between the Ambassador Hotel and his office at the 20th Century-Fox studios...