Last week, Kennan, who became famous for the clarity of his dire alarms about Stalin, spoke out for the first time about what he sees as the perils of the interventionist approach to Iraq.
Officials in South Carolina continued sounding dire alarms Thursday as the storm edged closer, urging people to be ready for wind, rain, extended power outages, downed trees and even potential mudslides.
With polls and prognosticators predicting a massive Republican rout -- and the likely election of uncompromising, out-of-the-mainstream conservatives -- in the fall, the Obama administration has begun raising dire alarms in its pitch to voters.
Last year, in the New York Times, George L. Zimmermann, a forest ecologist at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, sounded a dire alarm: "If the beetle takes off, you could be talking not tens of thousands of [affected] acres, but a hundred thousand or more".
Paragraphs full of dire predictions and alarming statistics jibe a little too conveniently with her tales of professional disappointment and sexual promiscuity.
But in the last year, a fleet of high-profile Silicon Valley defectors have been sounding alarms in increasingly dire terms about what these gadgets do to the human brain.
The day before the storm, alarmed by the dire predictions, the general manger, Faye Rosenbaum, mobilized a crew to place as many objects as possible on pallets two feet off the ground.
By this time, the leadership at Chevron may have come to regret Texaco's strenuous efforts, in the nineties, to move the lawsuit out of the U.S. Chevron representatives now expressed alarm at the dire state of the Ecuadoran judiciary, likening due process in the country to what one might find in North Korea.
A single red oak tree at the preserve has tested positive for sudden oak death syndrome, a disease that ravaged forests in California, and scientists are trying to figure out whether the infection is a dire beginning or a false alarm.
Earlier this month DoubleX, Slate's short-lived female-oriented publication (launched six months ago and about to be folded back into the parent site as a women's section), ran an article ringing the alarm about the dire threat posed by the power of the men's rights movement.
Delegates also expressed a shared sense of alarm over the dire situation for children in many Islamic countries, and the need for an urgent collective response.
