Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1920s, an increase in the number of Jewish students began to alarm then President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who reveled in his school's patrician past...
...colleagues reported that pollen from corn made pest-resistant by the addition of bacterial genes could spell trouble for monarchs. In his experiments, Losey scattered pollen from the genetically modified corn onto milkweed--the butterfly's only food during its larval or caterpillar stage--and watched what happened with alarm. Most of the caterpillars that ate these leaves either died or were stunted...
...fast: any explicit instruction in the Ten Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words...
...this doesn't get around the fact that we're seeing full-dress, four-hour versions of Hamlet now, with Dostoevsky's life story, in The Gambler, on its way this August. And these are not just the playthings of the black berets in art houses; to my alarm, the Academy Awards for three straight years now have gone to films I've actually liked for their classical power, humanity and intelligence...
...from the CIA to the Pentagon basement, home to the Joint Staff's directorate for targets and from there to the U.S. European Command in Germany and to NATO. All were charged with making sure that any bombs that went astray would do scant harm. No one raised an alarm...