Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later, "Broadway Joe" was the American Football League Rookie of the Year, and Clark, like many pro fans in those days, regarded the new league and its most colorful star lightly. "But one day in 1969, when I was bureau chief in Saigon," Clark says, "I set the alarm for 4 a.m. to listen to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the Super Bowl game between the Jets and the Colts. Joe made a believer...
Below the surface issues the contest has an emotional, ideological edge -Barzel blames Brandt's Social Democrats for "permissiveness" and points with well-rehearsed alarm at neo-Marxist members of Jusos (for Jungsozialisten), the under-35 wing of Brandt's party. The Jusos have swung so far left that the Chancellor himself recently admonished them for "polemics against the majority opinion of the party...
...false alarm proved the effectiveness of the 3100 signal. But the publicity, along with other secrecy lapses in recent months, persuaded airline officials that the time had come to use a new frequency. It will of course be secret-for a while...
Patria y Libertad has joined the right-wing National Party in something called Proteco (community protection). Their handbook reads like a guide, if not an outright incitement, to civil war. It provides for block chiefs, first aid and surgical facilities, alarm systems and arms caches. "Neither waste nor unduly save your ammunition," the handbook advises. "Concentrate your fire on whoever seems in command or carries the most dangerous weapons. Try to surround your enemies, firing without pity...
...Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...