Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor...
...This view has been forcefully expressed by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, and is the opinion of most, if not all, top U.S. military men. When the press last week reported Western military thinking on the subject, French public opinion promptly registered alarm-though a good deal less than might have been expected. France's own General de Lattre de Tassigny, head of Western Union's still largely hypothetical ground forces, was reported favoring a West German army...
...from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
...latest theft occurred Wednesday night while Briggs residents were having supper. When the robbery was discovered, Mrs. Garfield rang the fire alarm and summoned the 96 residents downstairs, where they were all searched in vain...
...athletic room-mate all sorts of ski equipment can be produced, and for the man who wants only four A's for Christmas, you might make a slight gesture in the form of an alarm clock. The guy who is looking for a blond may find that he will cut a much gayer figure in a nylon shirt, a suede or plaid vest and a new hat. All this apparel is filling up a lot of women's Christmas lists...