Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 100 students poured onto Mt. Auburn St. late Saturday night as a false alarm sounded from a fire box on the fifth floor of Claverly Hall...
...know," he confides, "for my next project I'm going to eliminate the front door. I don't like doors. Instead, you could have a photo-electric eye alarm in a criss-cross pattern, with maybe a siren...
Immediately after investigating the recent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at Indiana University, the indefatigable detectives of the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta had to respond to yet another alarm. The mysterious malady had erupted in Manhattan's crowded garment district. There, within a few city blocks, at least 75,000 men and women are jampacked by day, their indoor working conditions made bearable only by generous use of air conditioning...
...lobby, one of them pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of the box and aimed it at a guard. Soon the three sons were escorting their father out of prison. With them went Convicted Murderer Randy Greenawalt, 29, who had helped out by cutting off telephones and alarm systems...
...next morning the balloting began, and as the basilica bells were still pealing the noontime Angelus, the first puff of smoke wafted from the chapel chimney: black. Nine minutes later, more black smoke billowed forth, then seemed to turn white, then black again. False alarm. After the morning's first two ballots, Vatican Radio announced, there was no decision...