Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably half the University students had been members of the now outlawed National Students Union. And of course, it's impossible not to have had contact with a "communist sympathizer." Any mildly liberal past is cause for alarm. McCarthy has been redeemed...
...time the fear of taxpayer resentment of the costs of excellence in public buildings has been compounded with an almost ideological alarm at the implications of modern design. When President Kennedy took office in Washington, for example, it had been very near to half a century since the Federal government had constructed in Washington a building that was contemporary to its time, and the House of Representatives was soon to begin the Rayburn Building, perhaps the most alarming and unavoidable sign of the declining vitality of American government that we have yet witnessed. And this is the point: good...
...other pop artists and singers, all the masters of the put-on. Once upon a time we had Ruby and the Romantics, the Teddy Bears, Joey Dee and the Starlighters. Now the nouns and adjectives fight, putting each oher on, putting us on. The 13th Floor Elevator, the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Progressive Myopia. We like...
...fire alarm called in when the smell of smoke was detected in the Memorial Hall basement at 5:15 p.m. yesterday led firemen to discover no fire--only smoke...
...unidentified woman sounded the alarm when she detected the smell of smoke in the hallway of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics...