Word: alarming
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...sole province of religion. Similarly, reactions to the threat of terrorism represented not change that we could believe in, but rather the stasis that we feared. We were disappointed by Obama’s renewal of the Patriot Act, a bill whose overwhelming Congressional support was cause for alarm, not comfort, as the legislation remains an infraction against freedom. The bill represented and still represents an unnecessary forfeiture of a Supreme Court-affirmed right to privacy...
October brought the first meeting of a new student group called Tocsin—a word meaning “alarm bell” that has also been a code name in several military nuclear strike events—whose primary activities involved spreading awareness and promoting the fight against nuclear arms and testing...
...case of a fire alarm take only your exam copy and exam booklets. Proceed to the closest exit and assemble at [designated meeting location]. Stay together but do not discuss the exam. Keep your exam booklets closed...
...fire alarm goes off in the Science Center, and one-by-one, the 250 people in my class have their attentions pulled away from the behavior of eukaryotic cells. The head TF gets on the microphone, “Everyone keep your exams with you and head to your nearest exit.” And still, everyone remains calm as they slowly head up the aisles—a few people are still working...
...take a nap if I needed it. My blockmates stuck with me through a tediously long dinner, and brought me the one thing they knew would make me feel better the next night (’Noch’s, duh). And in case I had ignored my alarm, my ever-vigilant father spent the next two nights waking himself up to call...