Word: alarms
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Mahan said the council had purchased an “ample supply of beer,” but declined to be more specific, because he said he did not want to alarm the Boston Police Department...
Although FBI and CIA officials said they saw no actionable intelligence in the video, there were differing opinions in Washington about whether bin Laden had issued a new fatwa, or religious pronouncement, summoning supporters to violence. Some intelligence officials downplayed this interpretation, while others sounded the alarm. "People are worried," says an Administration official. "They're trying to see if there's anything in it that is code signaling that now is the time." The setting--in front of a well-lit backdrop--gave no immediate clue to bin Laden's whereabouts, compared with earlier tapes that showed...
...somewhat unfortunate, however. Although Hue has entered Marine lore as an example of a triumph of urban warfare, made more vivid by its recreation in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," a favorite movie on Marine bases, the wider context of Hue may give pause for thought - or even alarm. To be sure, the enemy the Marines are facing in the fierce fighting for Fallujah that began overnight Monday may be not dissimilar from the once they encountered at Hue. Both are fiercely determined guerrilla fighters motivated by a combination of nationalism and ideology, capable of great cruelty...
...weapon. Not long after daylight broke, Jenkins saw a North Korean soldier on the other side of a 3-m high fence, but the soldier's back was turned against the cold wind. Jenkins yelled to attract his attention, and the soldier turned around and hit an alarm. Then a number of other troops arrived and took Jenkins into custody...
...jumped from the car,” Ellroy read, “his face was a four-alarm fire…[he] sizzled and fizzled. The guy sputtered sparks and dipped dead...