Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once they've done that, they think maybe they'll organize the whole works into a unified movement--when all this came out, and when I saw the industry they were putting into the different projects, getting out booklets and newsletters and so on, I began to view with alarm a little. Not that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social significance, and without a single thought in its collective head that has anything to do with what is going...
...blaze was discovered in six-family dwelling two houses away from Kirkland House at 12:20 a.m., and a resident fireman turned in the alarm. Nine pieces of equipment from the Memorial Hall and Central sq. station soon supplied three high-pressure hoses and great quantities of water as a small blaze the back stairs was quietly immolated...
...rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, barrooms, the question was asked a million times. Britain, which has recently looked upon the U.S. as somewhat hysterical about the danger of war, was swept by a wave of alarm-but not of panic. The London Daily Mirror reported the British people as "calmly bewildered and apprehensively steady." The phrase was very British, but it described the attitude of the Western world in general. The West was braced for a blow-and it wanted desperately to know whether the blow was likely to come soon, or whether it might be postponed a year...
There is little chance that C.B. II will prove the perfect, all-purpose painkiller-or that any such wonder drug will ever be found. Pain is a complicated and mysterious thing. It is often dangerous not to feel it, for it is the body's alarm system. But pain sometimes rings the alarm so loudly and long that it upsets the body's whole balance. Some kinds of pain the doctors would like to reduce, some they would like to remove entirely...
Drugs like aspirin raise the "pain threshold"-i.e., the point where sensations, often pleasant ones, ring the alarm of pain. An affectionate pat becomes a painful slap, for instance, if the patter pats hard enough. A person who has been