Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
...which have since been built. Five weeks before President Roosevelt's inauguration Mr. McKenna asked: "Is it possible to raise our internal price level? Particularly can we do so by monetary management? ... I confess the thought of inflation, so long as it is controlled inflation, does not alarm...
...part of the Managua arsenal has exploded," the President told correspondents "The sound of the exploding ammunition was like machine gun fire but the entire country is peaceful. no cause for alarm...
Ambassador & Mrs. Grew serenely stood their ground. In two minutes it turned out that a Japanese policeman, thinking to turn on some electric lights, had pushed by mistake a lever which turned in a general alarm. "Very sorry! Must be fixed!" babbled an excited police official. "This accident has happened twice before...
...huge bond issue, while Japan's warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think about all lights were suddenly switched out in the main section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...