Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge firemen answered a phoned alarm at 8:33 o'clock, sending six engines and a rescue squad to the scene. A crew quickly chopped through the hall wall and extinguished the smouldering mass in short order...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
That afternoon, many a Montrealer heard the news of the raid and padlocking with shocked alarm. Sputtered Editor Gelinas, at a meeting of Communist students at McGill Union building: "This is just the beginning of Fascism in Quebec. . . . The issue is freedom of the press and freedom of thought...
Cambridge firemen responded to the alarm at 8:50 o'clock, sending three engines and two trucks to the Law School dormitory north of Hemenway Gymnasium. Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue stood still for twenty minutes as engines assembled to fight the blaze and crowds gathered to watch...
Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...