Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this: If you're awakened by a fire alarm at 6 a.m. tomorrow and the fire trucks arrive at your door, go to the firefighters and tell them "thanks." I don't what effect the words will have on those ever-present protectors, but I suspect, at a time when they grieve for their brothers in the fire service, a sincere acknowledgement will provide great comfort...
...says, "It seems to me that everybody's content in the Yard, but when they come here, they say, 'I'm free,' and get a little crazy. Especially this year, because we have a new breed of sophomores." He recalled one recent toga party during which a fire alarm sounded. "The toga party they had was very interesting. All the girls were half nude, in their bras and panties, and it was about 40 degrees outside." He continued, "But I understand you've got to let loose some time...
When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
...three-alarm fire on Green Street near MIT damaged eight apartments...
...Doors to food area close. Get up, bus tray, walk to statue, try to set off alarm but can't. It's somehow fitting. Grumbling, I exit Annenberg...