Word: alarum
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...armies would be unpolitic or unsafe. Nor is its function as an international forum negligible, though much derided. "World opinion" may be an elusive force on whose wooing much effort can be wasted. But the U.N. remains a place where participants in a quarrel can be quickly summoned, where alarum can be raised, attitudes judged, responsibility or irresponsibility exposed, pressure exerted. In short, it is a place where, despite perils and failures, men and groups engage in politics-an enterprise essential to peace and civilization...
...setting the most beautiful Hawaiian island -Kauai, about 100 miles west-northwest of Honolulu. They gave it a topflight director (Joshua Logan) and a glittering cast. They gave it, on the theory that there can never be too much of a good thing, every last alarum and excursion of the play's somewhat too ployful plot, and then proceeded to lard it out with new business, a new song, even a whole new battle sequence, until the final version runs to the seat-flattening length of 2 hr. 51 min.-plus a 15-minute intermission. They gave...
...Alarum. In Brooklyn, three police cars rushed through the streets on a tip that a woman was "yelling for help," found a perspiring man changing an auto tire-with his voluble wife trumpeting advice...
Dictator? Labor's topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
...pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...