Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin noted that the crisis need not warrant widespread student alarm. He emphasized that rumors that cups would soon be rationed by issuing students a single cup with their name on it were completely unfounded. There was no indication that next year's freshmen would be asked to bring cups from home...
...warning light, the mid-flight peeling of protective paint off the lunar module and the recalcitrant zipper on Young's space suit. Then, after the Apollo had gone into orbit around the moon and Orion, with Duke and Young aboard, had separated from Casper, came real cause for alarm...
...unfortunate, as typographical style can offer important clues to the emotions underlying SDS prose, such as the conclusion to a letter of January 25 in which the otherwise uninformative comment--"We would appreciate a response as soon as possible"--curves upward on the page in a rising sweep of alarm. A March 2 SDS contribution to this anthology was either typed on a Brobdingnagian typewriter or was blown up by the editors--a marvellous expression of their subconscious wish, though they themselves warn SDS in their introduction not "to advertise its wish as fact"--to approximately three times its normal...
...view with alarm the ever-widening scope of activities that are taken to fall within the province of the CRR, and would question the constitution and legitimacy of that body. We fear, in view of prosecutions of this sort, that the CRR itself poses a grave danger to academic freedom on this campus. 27 Graduate Students in Philosophy
Epps expressed alarm at MIT's decision Friday to turn down SDS's application for rooms on the MIT campus for meetings for the first two days of the convention...