Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMERICANS FIND THIS president's absence of mind somehow endearing, his malignant neglect of office no great cause for alarm...
...also wrote, addressing his roommate, whom he said cooperated with police investigation efforts: "I hope you get cancer from your alarm clock...
...because Uranium 238 is generally innocuous, the greatest source of radiation in Hechtman's room turned out to be his roommate's alarm clock, Bankoff said...
Once again, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is sounding the alarm. While other politicians talk moderately of reform, the Democratic Senator from New York wants to scrap the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). That system, established 50 years ago to provide temporary relief for widows, was never meant to address the long-term problem of poor children in broken homes, he argues, and it certainly has proved incapable of coping with the "changed reality" of a country with 3.8 million poor, single-parent families...
...money on some good drink or food, but you gotta suffer to save. You gotta have money to get out of here and I gotta get out of here." Some days he was scolded for eating too much of the food. He often worked without sleep, and with no alarm clock to wake him from the subways or abandoned tenements, he missed several days and was finally fired. He observes, "Can't get no job without a home, and you can't get a home without a job. They take one and you lose both...