Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herd of seven elephants approaching the water hole. The little ones were frolicking and gamboling about, some of them locking their tusks and pressing their heads against each other in a kind of reverse tug-of-war. A pretty good-size bull noticed us. His ears flared in alarm, and he looked very menacing." Gup and Campbell tensed, but the bull did not charge them...
Moore is on firmer ground in sounding an alarm about drug therapy. While the NCEP says cholesterol-lowering drugs should be used only after diet modification fails, many doctors are too quick to reach for the prescription pad. Reason: patients find it easier to take pills than to give up steak and eggs. Yet taking drugs for a lifetime can have unintended and perhaps dangerous side effects. The well-established anticholesterol drugs, including cholestyramine and nicotinic acid, seem to be relatively safe, but they can produce such discomforts as nausea and intestinal pain. Newer drugs, like the heavily promoted lovastatin...
...midst of the rodent problem, somestudents see little cause for alarm...
That's what Quincy House residents wondered on Monday, after an overloaded washing machine began to smoke and then set off a fire alarm...
...German planes strafing defenseless refugees, exploding bombs, the stench of burning and dead horses at the roadside. I thought the heavens had fallen in on me. Relations between Lithuania and Poland were not very good, and we were held up at the border, adding to our sense of alarm and fear. We were convinced that we would return home soon, that a British-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the overwhelming forces of the enemy. Not for a moment did I think I would not return to Poland for more than four years...