Word: alarmism
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...Lopez waited for her bus last week, she was nervous. The previous day, a man had climbed aboard her bus well before it was due to leave and left a case by the driver. "The driver shouted at us all to get out immediately, but it was a false alarm," she says. The man had just stepped out to buy a pack of cigarettes. In Leganés and throughout Europe, that wariness is beginning to feel less like a jangling case of nerves and more like a permanent feature of European life after 3/11...
...rather mythical group, presumed to signpost their academic career with Detur at one end and Hoopes at the other and a whole lotta fluorescent sourcebook underlining in-between, are clearly delineated from The Rest Of Us, who find the silence of the library a little unnerving, typically set the alarm for 6 a.m. the day of an exam (“two and a half hours should be enough to learn the entire course” is most definitely a phrase I have never uttered) and worst of all, generally neglect the import of regular hydration during periods of heightened...
...mail last night, Pertile stressed that “there is no cause for unnecessary alarm...
...yesterday, Ashley M. Nathanson ’07 didn’t wake up to the sounds of screaming that generally accompany the release of housing results, but instead to a fire alarm...
When her blockmates from Lionel Hall and Matthews Hall woke her up for the second time to inform her of their new home, she had been battling with her alarm clock’s snooze button for several minutes...