Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wyoming, investigators thought they just might have found the poisoner's first victim. Jay Mitchell, 19, of the town of Big Horn, failed to turn off the alarm clock that he had set to buzz at 6:30 a.m. on July 26; his father tried to awaken him, but young Mitchell was dead. Tissues from his body were sent for analysis to a busy laboratory in Utah, which concluded a month later that Mitchell had died of cyanide poisoning. Reviewing records last week and checking with authorities in Chicago, Pathologist William Doughty, of Sheridan County Memorial Hospital...
...appeared to be driven by smugglers of gasoline, who took off in the pickup. It was highly unlikely that they would go to the police. In fact, Colonel Beckwith believed they thought our team was Iranian police. But the bus passengers would have to be prevented from sounding an alarm. I approved the removal of all of them to Egypt by C-130 until the rescue itself was concluded, when they would be returned to Iran...
SING HO for the life of middle class America, burdened with enormous taxes, college tuitions, and unappreciative children. Also large, split-level homes and two-car garages. In Split Image, the Stetson family doesn't have it so easy. Despite a burglar alarm and extensive insurance, these upstanding citizens lose their son--body and soul--to a cult...
...clanging persisted, and 10 minutes later I put in another call, which was answered by a different person. "That's not showing up on the screen!" she exclaimed when told of the alarm. "You'd better get out of there fast!" There was no fire, of course, but someday we Lowellians are all going to be burnt to a collective crisp. Remember the boy who cried "Wolf...
...gropes for analogies. A big alarm clock? No comparison. A Concorde jet taking off next door? Not jangling enough. The only suitable comparison is with the one thing some of us has ever experienced. The day Ronnie drops the bomb and civil defense alarms go off across the country. Lowellians are going to roll over in the sack, mutter, "just another goddamn alarm," pull their pillows over their ears and hold their bedmates extra close. Then again, that's probably the best...