Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-alarm fire interrupted last Sunday's services at the Congregational church on Garden street, causing an estimated $500,000 damage to the roof, ceiling and basement, according to Fire Department Captain Gerald R. Reardon...
...alarm system at the First Church in Cambridge, congregational alerted the fire department at about 1 p.m. Reardon said. sixty-five firefighters worked for about four hours to completely douse the flames...
...court found that cross burning is also protected by the First Amendment. A Minnesota teenager, Robert A. Viktora, burned a cross on the front lawn of a black family in St. Paul and was charged under a city ordinance that banned any action "which one knows . . . arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Scalia called the ordinance unconstitutional on its face "in that it prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely on the basis of the subjects the speech addresses." He was quick to add, "Let there be no mistake about...
...resentments stirred by the Los Angeles riots, a still sour economy and a resurgent nativism may help swell the ranks of the K.K.K. In striking down a St. Paul ordinance last week that prohibited speech or behavior likely to arouse "anger or alarm" on the basis of "race, color, creed, religion or gender," the Supreme Court sought to protect free speech. But the incident that inspired the case in the first place -- a cross burning on the lawn of a black family -- led some to predict that the ruling would make it harder to prosecute hate crimes. Said Danny Welch...
Democrats charged that Bush's opposition to the House bill and a similar Senate version stems from fears that more new Democrats will register than new Republicans, and pointed with indignant alarm to statistics showing that only 36% of the adult population voted in 1990 elections -- a situation that may have as much to do with disillusionment with endless Washington politicking as with obstacles to registration...