Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hissing Gas. By 9 p.m. the police officers who were spreading the alarm were running into trouble themselves. The rising waters apparently caught the car driven by Sergeant W. Hugh Purdy, 53, a state patrolman, and swept it away. As far as can be determined, he was the first to die in the flood...
Bank officials were aghast, as well they might be. The managing director, Jacques Guenet, had been so convinced of his vault's impregnability that he had failed to install any kind of electronic alarm system. To save on wages, he had even sent the night watchman home on weekends. Guenet's wealthy depositors were displeased, to put it mildly. On the day following the discovery, angry crowds clogged the streets in front of the Société Générale...
...analyzing the jokes of a Minnesota Little League team-is anxious to discover why people laugh. "When we learn that, we will be able to use humorous material as a tool." Fine believes most people laugh as much as 1,000 times a day. If so, the news should alarm California Psychiatrist William Fry, who several years ago developed a theory that laughing is physically harmful and can actually kill you. That might still be a better fate than sitting through an academic conference on humor...
...Tatom, now thoroughly concerned, called police. Not until 7:30 did a local pilot sight the bus, hidden in the slough. Police sped to the site and found the bus deserted; the only real clues were two extra sets of tire tread marks near by. Concern turned to alarm...
Jones said the project first came to his attention in early spring following demonstrations which "rang the alarm." He said the MIT Office of Research had approved the program when it began two years ago but it received about 12 proposals a day and thus did not have time to look deeply into it. He said that relations with Taiwan were different at that time...