Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first alarm sounded last Tuesday morning due to the emissions of a faulty boiler in the basement of the apartments, said 29 Garden St. resident George S. Wang '96. Because most students were away in class, few residents were disturbed by the 11 a.m. alarm...
Stannard does not muffle or condone Waugh's great faults. He was anti- Semitic and terminally rude, even to close friends. He was a remote, absentee father who viewed his offspring with suspicion and alarm. "My children weary me," he once confided to his diary. "I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless." Perhaps in reaction to his frugal middle-class upbringing, he became an aristocrat-toadying snob who tended to confuse proper breeding with moral worth...
James played a modernized, slightly souped-up version of Johnson's Delta slide-guitar style and sang with a five-alarm urgency that defied dampening. "The crying guitar and the screaming voice" are what Bobby Robinson called it, but that was only the foundation of James' style, which, as amply represented here, shows plenty of range. Only the intensity never varies. Talk to Me Baby has a rock overlay; Bobby's Rock spins along with blues underpinnings driving a twangy, near countrified, Duane Eddy-style beat; I Believe makes you hear the grit under the guitar strings, the true Delta...
...venerable Douglas fir somewhere in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. And further suppose that your upper branches provide home and shelter for the endangered spotted owl. And then one day you hear the sound of approaching chain saws. The owls start to flap around you in alarm. And then you see the lumberjacks approaching your trunk, and you realize that the foreman of the crew is actually Elvis...
...thing to warn people that the Big One is coming -- someday soon. Engineers can design stronger bridges and sounder buildings; city planners can guide development in ways that reduce hazards. It's quite another thing to sound the alarm for an earthquake less than a minute away. Such early-warning systems are technically feasible, though there is debate about whether they would save lives or promote panic...