Word: alarmingly
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...descent was precipitous. At the time of his divorce, Ferguson began working for Ademco, a burglar-alarm manufacturer. A year into his job, however, he fell from a stool, receiving a back injury that led to his termination. He sued for compensation, won a $26,250 judgment but, for some reason, tried to reopen proceedings with the New York State workers' compensation board. He complained that he was a victim of racial prejudice and rejected state-appointed doctors sent to examine him because their surnames sounded ethnic and not black. Eventually, Ferguson, who wrote and called incessantly...
Harvard professors interviewed yesterday expressed alarm at the defeat of the leading pro-Boris Yeltsin party in Russia's parliamentary elections...
Oppenheimer said he was in a neighbor's room typing a paper when the fire alarm went...
...didn't realize it was the alarm," he said, "I thought it was the pipes making noise. A few minutes later someone came in and said `your room's on fire...
...London pub, for example, and you'll find at least one group of drinkers vying for laughs with stories of the day's disasters. Try the same tactic to amuse a group of friends in a Cambridge bar and one is greeted with expressions of surprise, confusion and even alarm...