Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staunch Republican, I wish to view with alarm this sweetness and light campaign of Dewey and Warren to unify the nation . . If, as we believe, Dewey wins the election, he will doubtless pose as the representative of a united nation, and those who criticize and those who attack his policies will be divisive forces, seeking to undermine the united efforts of the nation. Is this not authoritarianism wearing the garb of a monk and sweetly-saying Pax Vobiscum! . . . JAMES L. ROHRBAUGH Pastor First United Presbyterian Church Seattle, Wash...
...Senator Robert Waigner, 71, who has frequently been called upon to deny reports that he would retire because of failing health (his last appearance in the Senate was May 27), wandered off his son's estate in East Islip, L.I. While police sent out an eight-state "missing" alarm, he gave an I.O.U. for a meal at a restaurant, borrowed $5 for train fare to Manhattan, was finally picked up in a Lexington Avenue restaurant. His doctor's diagnosis: temporary amnesia...
They got them on the fifth day, when the silent bats finally spoke. Boston hit three home runs, to the alarm of Clevelanders in the largest crowd (86,288) to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time. Boston batters, who at one stretch had gone 23 consecutive innings without scoring a run, got six in the seventh inning. They won the game, 11-5. Head down, Bob Feller walked to the showers, the first Cleveland pitcher to be shelled from...
Precaution. In Los Angeles, Ross E. Piper reported to police that the burglar who broke into his house had stolen nothing but the burglar alarm...
Quick action by a trio of Lowell House residents put out a small fire in Lowell R-23 last night before it became necessary to turn in an alarm...