Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Bond stamps being used in the comics, so will you please refrain from using them." And once McCormick and Patterson, reading Terry together, came to a sequence where the lissome Burma was carrying on with a German named Keel. "Why," said the Colonel, turning to his cousin in alarm: "Burma is living with that...
Rushing out, they caught a glimpse of a fleeing man whom they presumed had taken alarm on being interrupted. Apprehended after a few blocks of uncertain pursuit at a trotting pace, the suspect turned out to be a graduate student of the Class of 1942, who has still to explain his evening's activities satisfactorily...
...which unions were swinging this legal club brought a cry of alarm last week from Judge Picard and even from Lawyer Lamb. Said Picard, who obviously thought many of the union suits were on flimsy ground: "There is no reason for this hysteria causing sleepless nights for some enterprises...
...recent months I, as well as many of my associates, have regarded with increasing alarm the rapid demobilization of not only our entire armed strength, but also the small army of occupation we are maintaining...
...feel completely settled down-«iew friends, new work and many new interests loom up. Most of these will be sudden and out of your usual run, but need not be difficult or unpleasant, since you are usually an adaptable person. Your health may cause a little alarm, but this will be largely nervous in origin, not constitutional defect, so do not worry...