Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophisticated AMU (for Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) that is built into the space walker's backpack will give Bassett singular agility. It is powered by twelve small hydrogen peroxide thrusters that can propel it in any direction; it has its own fuel tanks, running lights, gyroscopes, and an alarm system that warns the wearer by flashing lights and sounding beeps in his earphones if fuel or oxygen is running low. With its own hour-long oxygen supply, storage batteries and radio and telemetry systems, the AMU does not even need the "umbilical cord" that was used to supply oxygen...
...drove up the East Side, alerted his Emergency Control Board with his limousine phone. The Police Department, its communications and operations rooms lit by auxiliary power, summoned 5,000 men back to duty, had a force of 15,000 on hand before the long night ended. Because the alarm system was disconnected, the Fire Department sent trucks lumbering through the streets looking for fires. On orders from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 7,000 National Guardsmen reported for duty, and some 5,000 civil defense workers also pitched...
...sight of scantily clad young women leaping into the air, legs well apart waving sticks with colored paper on their ends would have a beneficent effect on the team's performance. We view this position with more than a jot of disdain and more than a title of alarm...
...immediately sounds the internal alarm and rushes downstairs to the lower suites, ringing doorbells, opening doors, and yelling "Everybody out! This is not a drill! Fire upstairs...
John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, awakens at the sound of whistles and at first suspects vandalism or a mugging. When the alarm goes off, he evacuates his family from the penthouse...