Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfe blamed Gropius for today's "hotel rooms that look like the inside of a Westclox alarm clock box" and homes that resemble "the engine room of the Grand Coulee...
...November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds a lot to laugh about in politics. When a young woman in Hurst knelt to photograph his Jimmy Carter belt buckle. Chip jumped back in mock alarm. Said he: "I thought you were lusting after my belt buckle." The best Carter campaigner, excluding Mom and Dad, Chip will have stumped in 48 states by Election Day. Twice he flunked speech courses in college. He boasts: "I could pass...
...pounding noises, billowing dust clouds and wafting odors coming from the Charles River bank near Boylston St. are not from an oversized alarm clock. The rumbling is the product of a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) sewer project aimed at curbing pollution of the river...
There were only fitful flights of mischief (Baio and Cassisi broke a fire-alarm box that had steel emergency doors slamming shut all over their hotel). The kids responded to Parker as if he were a benevolent older brother but stood just a little in awe of Jodie Foster. At 13, and after ten full-fledged roles in features as diverse as Tom Sawyer and Taxi Driver, Foster (TIME, Feb. 23) was the savviest pro around and regarded herself as such. "I never think of myself as a child actress," Foster says. "Only as an actress...
...fear of breast cancer among American women is understandably great. As the commonest cause of death among women, it kills 32,000 yearly in the U.S., and any report of increased risk raises the level of alarm. This happened last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published a report that women who take estrogen drugs after the menopause to replace natural hormones run a greater risk of breast cancer than others. The cautionary conclusion was based on a study of 1,891 Louisville women. Of those studied, 1,028 or slightly more than half, had had their ovaries...