Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Constant and mysterious military movements stirred confusion and alarm. Tank convoys rumbled to the east, away from Tiananmen, only to return a few hours later. Armored vehicles were deployed at a strategic cloverleaf east of the square, as if awaiting attack by another military force. Rumors of skirmishes, even artillery duels between the "bad" 27th Army and the "good soldiers" of the 38th Army, fluttered through the capital. With fear of an armed confrontation rampant, foreign governments ordered the evacuation of their nationals. Beijing airport was packed with diplomats, tourists and businessmen waiting for tickets and specially chartered planes...
...council also tried to address campus security by calling for better lighting on the Yard, more police protection and a program to distribute alarm whistles to all students...
MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...December rape at the Science Center has met with the addition of just one extra afternoon security guard. The Science Center has no beeper or alarm system for its workers or its students. Public telephones are located only on the basement floor of the building. The worker or student in the Science Center is hardly safer now than at the time of the rape...