Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First explosion occurred in one of the great tar reservoirs adjoining the benzol factory. Alarm whistles sounded instantly. While fountains of blazing tar shot into the air, a rescue squad hurried toward the plant. Not one lived to reach it. Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There...
Knowing well that the De Zeven Provincien could blow him out of water. Commander Eikenboom started chasing her in a small steamer. Sounding a general radio alarm, he roused Vice Admiral Osten and Netherlands India's entire fleet to pursue the De Zeven Provincien. Twenty-four hours later she was located, making a misguided dash for Java's Navy Yard, apparently in an effort to rescue the 400 imprisoned mutineers...
...took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick of the Japanese maneuvers as a possible target for simulated attack. Japanese warships will be operating on the direct route between Manila and Honolulu. Vice Admiral Osumi tried to soothe U. S. alarm at such a prospect...
...would prefer to remain at home, or perhaps not go through the performance at all. The statement, "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery," has to be taken with more than a grain of salt. I feel it very bad propaganda to unduly alarm the prospective maternal American public as to the safety of hospital delivery...
...hundred excited Japanese strikers and sochi ("hired thugs")* arrived with the cordwood. Slamming the door in their faces, Singer Assistant Manager Gilbert Parsons shot the bolt, raised an alarm and led the few Singer office workers who had not gone out to lunch up four flights of stairs to the roof...