Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pocket Alarm. A tiny plastic timer attached to a key chain, which can be set to go off in any interval from five minutes to an hour, was put on sale by Jana Enterprises of Ridgewood, NJ. Price...
...riot" was culminated when someone turned in a false fire alarm, which brought five pieces of fire equipment to the scene. One of the Cambridge policemen said, "It was obviously a Harvard student who turned in the alarm to get back at the Bick for levying the minimum...
...meantime, it's a great life. I don't use an alarm clock any more, work when I feel like it. In the past year I had fourteen weeks of night club work and fifteen or twenty concerts. As for the rest of the time, the record business is still mine and I've got to arrange all these engagements myself--I don't have an agent. My program is worked out now so that I can do a whole show myself--about twenty-six songs...
...hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...
Since then, tourists and art students have flocked into the Lascaux Cave, bringing with them damp air which threatened the existence of what they came to see. Taking alarm, French authorities closed the cave during the winter months while they installed air conditioning of the sort used on submarines, will celebrate the reopening next week...