Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarm fire tore through an office building at 67 Winthrop Street last night, destroying a Civil Liberties legal aid office and causing substantial damage to Herman and Lees, a graphics design corporation...
...first alarm was sent out at 5:20 p. m., and by 5:35, about 20 fire-fighting vehicles from Cambridge and Somerville had answered the call. By 6 p. m. flames had ripped through the ceiling of the building, and the temperature had dropped below freezing, adding new elements of danger to the task of fighting the fire...
...frequent butt of jokes by comedians and cartoonists. "Plumbers make so much money these days that they have to work about a week, with overtime, to pay for a Ford Maverick," gibed Tennessee Ernie Ford in a recent radio commercial. What was once mere grumbling has lately turned to alarm among businessmen, economists and Government officials. They reason that unless the U.S. finds a way to stop exorbitant pay increases in construction, the pattern will continue to spread into many other industries and to undermine the nation's fight against inflation. The problem may even help lead the Nixon...
...push them out of the car. The University Council paid for an advertisement in the local papers protesting the shooting of the two professors. The papers which printed the statements were warned by the Minister of Defense that they are breaking the law against publishing items which cause "public alarm...
...room just burned, and we didn't know what happened," Karen L. Wilson '71 said. No one noticed the fire until the fire alarm, activated by a smoke sensor, sounded in the halls...