Word: alarming
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Momentous Project. The committee chairman professed no alarm over the glaringly partisan vote by the committee's 21 Democrats and 17 Republicans, saying that by consulting with G.O.P. members he will be able to still partisan suspicions. Rodino promised ranking Republican Edward Hutchinson that he and other G.O.P. members will be kept fully informed of all committee activities and will never be confronted by the Democrats with surprise developments...
...basic myths of public education. It is the myth of free and unmanipulated options. The university-extension of this grade-school self-deceit is the idea which liberal jargon calls "the open market of ideas." Intellectuals from Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. write often--and with considerable alarm--of those within the Rebel Left who seek to undermine, subvert, destroy the so-called "open conflict" of competitive ideas which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine and Business Colleges, for example--where straightforward economic self-perpetuation of the upper class seems...
American officials detected the Arab buildup in satellite spy photos and expressed some alarm, but Israel discounted the danger. Explained one U.S. intelligence expert: "The Israelis are right there, and they should know. This time they did not read the signals right." By last week an Israeli Foreign Ministry official privately admitted that, "what was coming out of Cairo was a smokescreen. What Sadat was trying to do was obvious-lull us into a security that was not there." But Israel also helped lull itself into a sense of false security. Since the devastating victory over Egypt, Syria and Jordan...
Appalled by the immolation murder, Boston's whites poured out rage and alarm on local talk-show radio programs. They were quickly echoed by blacks, who realize all too well that the residents of a neighborhood quickly become the primary victims of any crime rampage started there. "Everyone in the black community is upset," said State Representative Royal Bolling. "This is one of the most horrible things to ever happen in our area." Nevertheless, the tension soon found a fresh point at Andrew Square in a declining white neighborhood and near the notoriously ill-planned and ill-sited black...
...building, and were barely inside when cries of "?La migra! ?La migra!" echoed down the hallway. The warning that immigration agents might be near by sent the eight scurrying into an attic hideaway. After an edgy two hours, the men found out the cry had been a false alarm and they breathed a bit easier...