Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Monday I set my alarm for 7 a.m. Most Harvard students who wake up at that ungodly hour have a good reason for it, like finishing off a paper or cramming for a morning exam. I just wanted to get on line for hockey tickets...
Momentum in sports can be quite mysterious. Many things can affect a match, but how often does the beeping of a watch alarm turn a contest around...
Weintraub and the Crimson can tell you it doesn't take much to swing momentum to your side. Even a timely watch alarm ring can do the trick...
...despite Bush's claims to the contrary, there was enough truth in these allegations to cause alarm. Even Senator John Warner (R.-Va.), the ranking Republican on the committee, admitted that the FBI investigation into Tower's personal life, which found that he indeed had had drinking problems, cast doubt on the nominee's fitness for such a high-level and sensitive post...
Justice attorneys apparently reflected alarm in the CIA and the National Security Agency over a January ruling by Gesell. The judge had said he would allow North to introduce some classified information "without benefit of a further ruling" and to bring in still more on cross-examination of Government witnesses "if the court finds it appropriate." To the security agencies, which generally object to declassification of any secrets whatever, that sounded like an open invitation to spill the beans on all sorts of potentially damaging (or at least embarrassing) information. They prevailed on Thornburgh to press Walsh to appeal...