Word: alarms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...objectives in mind. Publicly, he has stressed the need for a dramatic pitch to hold the disgruntled lower and middle classes in the conservative-to-center fold. Without a concerted "anti-collectivist" campaign, he has warned with a note of alarm over the past year, the petite bourgeoisie will give the Socialist-Communist coalition the seats in the National Assembly it needs in the 1978 elections to control government initiatives...
Residents of Wigglesworth soaked up the stars early this morning after a fire alarm emptied several entries of the Yard's longest dormitory...
...incident began at about 12:40 a.m. as residents of G-31 Wigglesworth detected smoke coming from an empty bedroom, reportedly the result of an electrical malfunction. The residents of the room pulled the fire alarm, bringing the city fire department to end the would-be holocaust...
...been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish−one experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck, but for me−and with...
Fortunately Professor Freeman's alarm has awakened educators, who now are rightly concerned with the financial rewards of college. I am pleased to report that Harvard is already hard at work to demonstrate to its students that, while a liberal education does not improve the intellect, it does indeed improve the balance sheet. The object of college is not the full mind but the full larder. Pearls of Harvard wisdom are negotiable...