Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more like a man of the people than did his immediate predecessors. Between 300,000 and 400,000 guests are to be invited to the Jan. 20 festivities-including virtually everybody who in any way helped Carter on his long march to victory. The prospect gives some cause for alarm (see page 10). But the Carter team hopes those who attend will have fun. There are plans to hold as many mass parties -at least six-as the size of the crowd requires. Carter intends to stop in at each one. The capital's museums and tourist attractions...
Students upended from their lifestyles, such as the twice-harrassed Eliot residents (bomb scare and fire alarm) or the brawl-marred Leverett and Lowell House members, sensed their predicaments to be strictly Yale-weekend related...
They come by truck from all over Europe. Some arrive concealed in frozen sheep carcasses from Belgium. Others come hidden under the fenders of shiny new cars from West Germany. Still others arrive concealed within the false bottoms of crates filled with alarm clocks from Czechoslovakia. The hidden cargo is always the same: pistols, submachine guns, mortars and sometimes even rocket launchers. According to one estimate, one out of every ten trucks entering Greece carries contraband weapons. Says Greece's Maritime Minister Alexandras Papadogonas: "The Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that...
...murder since the 1973 military putsch. Secret police have expelled two of the church's top civil rights lawyers, and still hold a third, though they have filed no charges against him. Two months ago, Cardinal Silva and leaders of the Chilean hierarchy issued a strong statement expressing alarm about "the fearful and all-powerful police state" that threatens to impose itself "without opposition in our Latin America." One priest noted ruefully that the theology of liberation used to mean "a man's right to participate in the running of a factory. Now it means getting...
...chaos of migrant families spilling onto his road and the snatches of other people's conversations that Gawber hears over his apparently interconnected telephone wires have deeply disturbed his sense of order and privacy. So like a conspirator, alone with his wife in their enormous house, Gawber "guards against alarm." He has seen the handwriting on the wall. He knows what the football slogan "Arsenal Rule", scrawled across broken windows everywhere, really means. Gawber waits for the great clap of thunder when the ground will open up and London will fall into...