Word: alarmingly
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...risk of seeming old-fashioned, I would like to express alarm at the trend toward the "death of handwriting" [Aug. 3]. As a mother who is teaching her daughter to write, I can say it is hard work, and much discipline is involved. I think this is a statement on our increasing lack of discipline as a society. What's to become of us? Julie Sumner, LANESBOROUGH, MASS...
...July, Lindsey Burke at the right wing Heritage Foundation drew attention to the home visitation initiative, calling it a "troublesome provision...that would bring state workers into the homes of young families." Action hero and conservative activist Chuck Norris picked it up from there, penning a column sounding an alarm about "Obamacare's home intrusion and indoctrination family services, in which state agents prioritize houses to enter and enforce their universal values and principles upon the hearts and minds of families across America...
...relays the ship's position to authorities, was either switched off or broken. According to CNN, three days later, Swedish police phoned the ship and spoke to someone they believed to be the captain. When the ship failed to make its scheduled arrival in Algeria on Aug. 4, the alarm was raised. (Read "Girding for the Pirates' Revenge...
...Read "Was the Alarm over Swine Flu Justified...
Under the First Amendment, talking trash--what police acidly call "contempt of cop"--isn't by itself punishable unless you alarm a crowd while doing it. Thus, many cases are eventually dropped, as Gates' was. Nor is his the first to carry overtones of discrimination: Rosa Parks was convicted after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger...