Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago the tall, restless character who moved into the White House with Franklin Roosevelt was viewed by large portions of the U.S. public with some degree of derision if not alarm. They caricatured her, joked about her, called her 'Eleanor Everywhere.' They couldn't believe that any one woman could sincerely embrace the multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates...
Haley Barbour was worried, and he sounded the alarm. The chairman of the Republican Party knew that organized labor was about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth...
...clock trick seems to be a common gag employed by Harvard students. Bill S. Triant '99 tried to set his roommates' alarm clocks forward an hour, but according to another roommate, F. Edward Boas '99, his plot failed...
...former senior CIA official recalls that in early 1992 "alarm bells started ringing at the agency." Analysts feared that Libya intended the plant to have the same capacity as the original Rabta facility, which over two years produced about 100 tons of mustard gas and nerve agents. Unless destroyed, the experts concluded, the new factory could keep Gaddafi's favorite terrorists well stocked with chemical poisons for decades...
...public was thus doubly stunned last week when a government-appointed scientific commission indicated just the opposite. The commission had discovered a new strain of a deadly disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and suggested that the likely cause for its spread was BSE. The announcement sent a wave of alarm across Europe. By week's end all but two European Union countries had banned British beef, and nations as far away as New Zealand and Singapore had done the same, cutting off trade that earns Britain $780 million a year. The U.S. has not permitted the import of British beef...