Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Martha M. Babcock '70, discovered the fire and pulled the dormitory's fire alarm at 10:42. At the time, only five of the eighteen girls living there were in the dorm, and all five made their escape safely...
Most important, the red-cell units will include up to 1,000 rare types, a call for which often touches off a transcontinental alarm to round up donors. Dr. Allen points to a corkboard listing the rarest of the 500 types now in stock. A Philadelphia doctor recently phoned the center and asked, not too hopefully, whether it could find donors with an extremely rare blood type. "I don't know about donors," replied the center's duty officer. "Just tell me how many units you want." The doctor wanted eight. He got them...
Everyone in Stockholm seemed to have set his alarm clock to sound off be fore dawn. By 4 a.m., cars, motor scooters and flower-decked taxis that had been hired months before streamed downtown to the Kungsgatan, the city's main street. There they waited through a solemn radio countdown. At the stroke of five, loudspeakers blared: "Now is the time to change over." In a brief but monumental traffic jam, Sweden switched to the right side of the road...
...guards cost even more than vandals, so schools are turning to mechanical protection devices such as Chicago's ingenious sound-wave system, whose disruption lights lamps, sets off bells and sirens and alerts everybody in the neighborhood. Because this is so expensive, Chicago generally uses a $12 "Prowl Alarm" that greets intruders with an unearthly howl. But Chicago authorities would prefer putting police dogs in every school...
Understandably, the rioting in Detroit and in other U.S. cities has led to some alarm in the insurance industry. Insurers, says American Insurance Association President T. Lawrence Jones, are unhappy not only about the present rash of damage claims but also about "the potential losses from similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson...