Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Johnson, an alarm guards the building during the night but not during the business...
LAST OCTOBER, WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton's inner circle was peddling him a comparatively rosy take on the midterm elections, one unlikely outsider was sending an alarm. Dick Morris, a Democratic turned Republican consultant who had worked for Clinton in Arkansas, told the President the Democrats would lose 50 seats in the House and control of the Senate as well. The prediction was so prescient that Clinton, though hardly lacking for advisers, has continued to partake of Morris' counsel, usually over the phone but sometimes during private sessions in the White House residence. He even directed the Democratic National Committee...
...Tokyo attack, was not suspected because the victims' symptoms were different. People affected by the fumes today complained of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness, but there were no reports of serious or life-threatening injuries. Curiously, on Mar. 5 -- two weeks before the Tokyo attack raised national alarm -- about a dozen passengers were taken to a hospital in Yokohama after they inhaled mysterious fumes in a train car. The source of the fumes was never found...
...Cambridge Fire Department sent a full first alarm company, including two ladder trucks, three engine companies and a heavy rescue truck, according to Acting Deputy Chief Stephen J. Boyle...
...used to sleep with the short-wave radio by his bed so he could hear any reports about what was going on at Mather," Naddaff said. If there was a fire alarm or other disturbance, "He would get here sometimes before the police did," she said...