Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt then tried to contact his Naval Chief, Admiral Harold R. Stark. "Betty" Stark was at the theater. The President decided not to disturb him lest it cause "public alarm...
...regarded by Rome as a missionary province-it had to import priests to care for the faithful, money to support their activities. The Vatican had permitted the U.S. clergy to choose the first three of their bishops, beginning with John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789, had then taken alarm. For the next century, U.S. bishops were chosen by Rome's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and those selected were most often either Irish or French in background...
...invasion of England has begun, reported the Eton College Chronicle in alarm. "An army of ill-bred and offensive words . . . spreading from Whitehall," said the Chronicle, "has contaminated our newspapers, whose pages are filled with roving participles and the remains of shattered infinitives...
Cash on the Barrelhead. As yet, most farm experts viewed the boom with only mild alarm. Most of the farm-buying was for cash (in World War I, farmers sometimes had three and four mortgages on their land), and instead of sinking all their World War II profits in new land, farmers were using it to pay off mortgages on the old. Now, almost half of U.S. farmers own their land outright and mortgages on the rest are down to $5.5 billion, half the peak...
...gave up, exhausted. They carted down blankets, built a fire, heated rocks to keep the wounded man warm. Then, as the boy kept solitary watch, Mrs. Hutt stumbled back to the lighthouse, desperately signaled to the mainland by blacking out the light with a curtain. She sounded the fog alarm, built seven brush fires on the hill. No help came. At 10 o'clock next morning Hutt died...