Word: alarming
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Having future heads of state tear into each other so vehemently in the world's reading rooms is some cause for alarm. It certainly provides us with more opportunity to think about the monarchy. Unfortunately, like so many other things nowadays, the preferred solution is a form of overkill, guaranteed to end whatever displeases us at whatever the cost...
Police arrived shortly afterwards, notified by the store's silent alarm system...
...showing that traces of five commonly used agricultural weed killers are seeping through soil and streams and into the drinking water of some 14 million Americans, mostly in the Midwest. The poisons pose slightly increased cancer risks. The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged there was cause for "concern" but not "alarm...
Suddenly, she is interrupted by a loud, metallic alarm and flashing lights. Cabot is closing, and more than 30 students are forced out to continue their studying elsewhere...
...film's essential episode, the disappearance of the petulant Anna (Lea Massari), occurs within the first hour. A luxury yacht's cargo of listless passengers disembarks on a rocky, semi-deserted island. Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she cries "shark" in pretend. This act of immature attention-getting sets the scene of her disappearance, which will ultimately become the only certainty in the film, in a context of folly and childish insignificance...