Word: alarmingly
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...Iran experts say their contacts in Tehran have conveyed alarm at the prospect of Ross's appointment. But if Obama appoints him, the Iranians will have no options. "The best we can hope is that Ross's negatives, in Iranian eyes, will be canceled by the fact that he is a power player," says one Iran expert. (Watch a video of Israel's rising conservative political star...
...November night in 1964—just as the sun was rising outside Leverett’s McKinlock Hall—the fire alarm blared, and William P. Docken ’67 went to check on his roommate, Gregory B. Craig ’67. Surprisingly, Craig was still lying in the bottom bunk...
...Greg has the alarm clock in his hand, banging the shit out of it trying to make it stop,” says Docken, “This is the guy who President Obama’s gonna wake up in the middle of the night when he’s in the middle of a crisis...
...windows pre-approved by the Secret Service to be open for viewing for our floor. All other windows MUST have the shades CLOSED at all times. Please don’t open and close any shades from the approved 26 windows while the parade takes place. This will alarm the Secret Service Snipers allocated on neighboring buildings.” I began to ask the woman who had escorted us into the building, “So, just to be clear, you mean, like, if I open the shade on one of those windows over there?...
...Among Israel's Arabs, Lieberman's rise is viewed with alarm. As one Arab schoolteacher wrote in an Israeli newspaper: "[Lieberman] hates us and incites against us, and we can see that he is doing very well: The more he incites against us, the stronger he becomes." But some Arab intellectuals see Lieberman's ascendancy as a symptom of a struggle between those Israelis who still believe in peace with the Palestinians, and those who think it is impossible to even try, and who advocate living in a constant state of military readiness against the Arab enemy. "Lieberman...