Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cars- Heeding the public alarm about Sudden Death in highway accidents, the motormakers now soft-pedal speed. Though a number of makes will go 100 m.p.h. and nearly all will go faster this year than last, every Show visitor was handed a brochure on safe & sane driving...
...Great War brought back that fierce spirit of intolerance that Thomas Jefferson had hoped to bury forever. It took the form of demands for the dismissal of certain professors, either because they had the misfortune to be Germans, or because they spoke or wrote in a manner to alarm property. And these demands--to their shame let it be said--came most sharply from our own alumni; from men who had benefitted from the very freedom that they sought to restrain...
...political artist needs to run the whole gamut of his virtuosity. The situation: The Prime Minister was about to call a sudden ''snap election" on Nov. 14 because he thinks his government can win more votes on their foreign policy amid Europe's present state of alarm than they possibly could on their domestic record quietly considered...
...Spaniards took alarm last September when perennial Premier Alejandro Lerroux resigned once more and passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...
...population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased by tiny grins, twisted by picayune emotions of fear, alarm and love, they squeal and whisper, wiggle, grimace and frown in terrifying parody that would doubtless have delighted Jonathan Swift. Whether the author of Gulliver's Travels would be equally pleased by the use Soviet cinemanufacturers have made of his masterpiece in other respects is more debatable...