Word: alarmingly
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...ALWAYS found the concept of insomnia unimaginable. I came to college with three alarm clocks set five minutes apart from each other on opposite sides of the room. Lucky enough to get a single in my freshman year, I regularly slept through a bright-red screaming buzzer that once caused my proctor to call the fire department. The smell of coffee embedded itself in the walls. I don't remember a month of my life when I wasn't tired...
Azerbaijan's KGB expressed alarm in its appeal to residents of the republic for calm, Radio Moscow said...
Appallingly, Exxon workers were warned of the possibility of a rupture but did not act. The pipeline, which connects an Exxon refinery with storage tanks, had a leak-detection system in place that flashed an alarm when the accident occurred. But instead of shutting down the pipeline, which would have kept the spill to a minuscule amount, employees failed to take the alarm seriously for nearly six hours. Reason: the safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms...
...bomb scare was not the only inconvenience of the day for Baker occupants. Library employees said there also had been a false fire alarm at about 10 a.m. that forced them to evacuate for about 25 minutes...
...alarm had been caused by a speck of dust, a library worker said...