Word: alarming
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...realized my fondness for the House on a wintry Saturday morning when I was in the dining hall eating breakfast and doing some tutorial reading. At about 9:00 a.m., the fire alarm went...
...this particular Saturday, however, the alarm went off in the morning. And because our alarms usually went off every weekend night at oh, 2:30 a.m. or so, I wondered if this new, daylight alarm signaled an actual fire. I picked up my copy of Song of the Lark, grabbed my glass of orange juice and evacuated the dining hall along with the other five or six early-risers...
...exact some sort of price, to attract attention to their cause." But it was by no means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...
Singer said it's not uncommon for the Kennedy School to receive bomb threats. He said this one didn't cause particular alarm because "It was a vague and unspecific call...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, who lives on Faculty Row, said his apartment was broken into "about six years ago." He said an alarm system had been installed in "most of the units on Faculty Row" after break...