Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the department of Buildings and Grounds is estimating the cost of installing various alarm and closed-circuit television systems...
Prodigies of imagination. Compared with the behavior of any species except man, the chimp's social life is richly sophisticated. They have a wide range of intelligible expressions: fear, rage, hunger, shock, confusion, boredom, irritation, amusement, worry, pleading, mischief, tenderness, embarrassment-even a look of comic alarm that reminded Jane of refined English girls watching horror movies. The chimps also smile, hold hands, dance when it rains, play simple games and stage hugging-and-backslapping orgies when they discover a new fruit tree...
Lieder-singing tenors often find the transition to early music difficult, but Charles Bressler is an exception. In the second part of Acis he supplied both magnificent solo technique (best in his martial "Love sounds th'alarm" aria) and at other times a capacity for blending in with the chorus. Bressler's voice is impressively agile while his manner is wholly engaging. The same cannot be said for soprano Jean Hakes. Singing Galatea's role, too often she allowed superfluous dramatic gestures to interfere with the music. She does possess an exceptional grace of execution, proving again her mastery...
...unless you force us to," he added. So maybe this was it. It looked as though the Secret Police was going all the way; so all the carefully devised plans Jack and I had made seemed to be headed towards death. We had only planned bread and water strikes (alarm stage one), unless put into solitary, where we would drink only water (alarm stage two), but the prison officials had themselves chosen to push us into alarm stage three--no food or water, which meant death under ten days unless they stuck some kind of tubes in us. But even...
...national alarm over inadequate living facilities, coupled with the uncertainty over the political future, has created an almost fatalistic despondency among many Japanese. Early in September the feeling was heightened by a curious natural phenomenon. Off the Philippines there originates an ocean current that the Japanese call Kuroshio (the black current). Carrying a water volume of 500 Amazon Rivers north and east along Japan's mountainous Pacific coast, Kuroshio has served for eons as the conveyor belt for a wealth of marine resources. But last month the black current brought mostly trouble. For reasons still not explained, Kuroshio began running...