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Word: alarms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water entered my lungs, and I actually felt the sensation of drowning. But somehow I struggled to the surface alive. I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm." (See Ted Kennedy's top 10 legislative battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...trois quickly proves insupportable. The truth is that even when it was a ménage à deux, the Howards were a loveless, childless couple. At the first signs of offspring, Howard decides to abandon his bed and board to run off with the girl. When Ella's alarm turns out false, so do the marriage, the liaison-and the poses of all the principals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: False Alarm | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Delayed Warning. The Dutch were understandably furious. Five days before they were warned, dead fish, ducks and rats had been observed below the German town of Bingen. Why had the Germans failed to sound the alarm sooner? The North Rhine-Westphalian state government explained that a warning was issued to all German waterworks along the river. But then along came the weekend, and officials simply took off without passing the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Rancid Rhine | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...setting becomes very boring); its characters as much figures for the camera to follow, rather than sensibilities whose interaction with a setting must be described. The lack of personal development makes Les Carabiniers as disjointed and difficult as Weekend. But the broadness of Weekend's subject is cause for alarm. Weekend shows the impossibility for Godard of making films in a society which is destroying its humanity...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Death Of American Films | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...efforts to cut defense expenditures. For Charles, newly named as its Colonel in Chief, it was a successful show, marred only slightly by the efforts of the regimental goat to eat his sash. "Let us hope," he said later, "that the mascot is trained to act as an alarm in the event of any surprises sprung on us by certain activists," a reference to Wales' extreme nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES: THE APPRENTICE KING | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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