Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night-alarm gong from the switchboard and a kick or two from his wife Barbara, who with her daughter Susan may have logged more hours than any two operators in crank-phone history...
...Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine) was denounced in the Communist youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda for "giving thousands of spectators dangerous injections of dubious ideas." As expressed in Time Machine lyrics, the ideas (for example: "There's no point in believing promises any more") hardly seem likely to set off alarm bells in the Kremlin. Still, Time Machine has made no albums and has been banned from playing in Moscow. New regulations have forced discos to cut back on Western rock, and bootleg tapes of Western and local groups sell for $60 and up, even in remote parts of the U.S.S.R...
...surprise attack on meal deductions raises cries of alarm...
Through an unlocked ground floor window, Faganclimbed into the Stamp Room, where the extensive royal stamp collection is displayed. That set off an alarm, but it was ignored. Fagan went back out the same window, shinnied up a drainpipe, removed his sandals and socks, and climbed to another window, which had just been unlocked by a maid. For the next 15 min. or so, reported Dellow, "he moved through the corridors of the palace unchallenged. One member of the palace domestic staff remembers seeing him, but his behavior was not sufficiently suspicious to cause her to raise the alarm...
Thus, when Queen Elizabeth awoke, saw Fagan and pressed the button to an alarm bell outside her door, no one heard it. A telephone call to the palace operator for help was forwarded to the police, but none was forthcoming; six minutes later, she called again. She and the maid, who had come into the bedroom, led Fagan into a pantry in search of cigarettes. Returning with the corgis, the footman kept him there smoking until police, as a result of the second call, finally appeared...