Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Settling himself to the chair he filled his pen and carefully lettered "Page One" on the upper let corner and "First" on the upper right, but no more, for another possibility crossed his mind. What if he should work through lunch? He set the alarm for noon and folded it under his pillow, then returned to the desk. "First Draft" he finished. He should note the time he started; getting out of his chair, he uncovered the alarm clock and noted the time, wound it tight and recovered it. Filling in the time, Vag thought a footnote was needed...
Like many Peiping intellectuals, some of the 16 correspondents in residence there this winter viewed without alarm the prospect of Communist capture of Peiping. Boss Mao Tse-tung had promised complete press freedom, and correspondents hoped to get an on-the-spot picture of the Red army. But when Red troops marched in last month, newsmen got a rude surprise...
...embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
...crusty, crafty old (78) Amadeo P. Giannini had built his Bank of America into the world's biggest (522 branches). His Transamerica Corp., which owns 23% of the bank, had become the world's biggest bank holding company. Many big & little bankers have viewed his bigness with alarm, but none more loudly than Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles...
...cactus rushed 600 screaming men & women armed with clubs and stones. They surrounded the riders, grabbed the soldiers' rifles. Sanchez was beaten into unconsciousness; Proctor fought his way out and dashed towards a wooded area with a mob at his heels. The soldiers escaped to give the alarm...