Word: alarms
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...panelists said they were particularly frustrated with vague alerts of potential terrorist activity issued by the federal government. A recent false alarm predicting terrorist activity in Boston “froze the city” for several days, Menino said...
Last Sunday night as I sat in my room typing the next installment of my column, thinking of how dull the Harvard campus has been recently, I was interrupted by the piercing sound of my fire alarm. Cursing the now-routine recent barrage of fire drills, I grabbed my coat and rushed downstairs into the courtyard. Only this time, to my delight, the distinct smell of acrid smoke greeted my nostrils upon exiting the building...
Clara H. Shen ’02, who is also a Crimson editor, was in the shower when she heard the alarm...
...seeing any smoke, Preidis and his friend went back to their rooms, only to hear the fire alarm about 30 minutes later...
Barely two weeks after Washington sounded a similarly opaque alarm based on nonspecific information, no one seemed to have a good answer. Just as we were getting used to what the Bush Administration is calling the "new normalcy," civilians and law enforcement alike braced for what they feared might be another horrifying strike on the home front. Before, they had trained watchful eyes on the weapon of the week, from crop dusters to haz-mat trucks; cops and civilians now had to view anything and everything with suspicion. The new normalcy was being redefined every minute...