Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop's business problems were not enough, on May 12 a fire broke out in the tailor shop at the rear of the third floor. The Cambridge Fire Department failed to respond to the first alarm, and the blaze gutted the entire third floor before it could be brought under control...
...attitude of alarm is understandable. The Germans hadn't yet stalled in Russia, and in Africa, Rommel, the "Desert Fox," was pestering the British back to Tangiers. The Japanese island-hopped across the Pacific...
...sunning and reading Lord Jim on the ledge. At 3 p.m. four fire trucks scream up and men go running onto the campus with axes. Some people think this is the bust, but it seems like the wrong public agency to me and turns out to be a false alarm...
Since research requires objectivity, the academic has no place in politics (at least while on the job) and conversely, should not be judged by political standards. A campus should be a neutral haven where political gladiators can meet with their guards down, and one gladiator should not take alarm when he sees the university conferring with the other...
...same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked: "Don't you think so?" The crowd laughed and cheered...